Madrid and Liverpool meet on the 28th in the Champions League final. It will be in Paris. A place where, oddly enough, the protagonist is still in another confrontation between the two teams in the market: Kylian Mbappe.
The star of Paris Saint-Germain is the desire of Florentino Perez with the opening of the new Bernabeu. A process they have been working on for years, even offering 200 million euros last summer, although there is only one year left on his contract with the French team, which rejected the offer, explaining that money is not an issue.
The roadmap is clear and the white team is calm. Kilian did not renew, rejecting various astronomical offers, these days he has toured the Spanish capital accompanied by Achraf Hakimi and Madrid hopes to present him before the pre-season tour in the United States. However, Liverpool may tamper with these plans according to what was leaked in England…
Miguel Delaney confirmed, in his weekly newsletter published every Friday in The Independent newspaper, that Mbappe has not yet agreed to the terms of his contract with Real Madrid, adding that his future is unclear, which also opens the possibility of his continuation in Paris Saint-Germain and gives hope to Liverpool.
The Reds have been the biggest bidders in the race for Mbappe and that means that when this information emerges, England newspapers are speculating on the possibility that Klopp, who has admitted his admiration for Kylian on several occasions (“From a sporting point of view, there aren’t many reasons not to sign him. What a A player!”, he said in 2019), Liverpool made one last bid to try to spoil the process.
In France, it was already reported in January that on Merseyside before Madrid they began planning to sign Mbappe and now this leak comes from the British newspapers. The strange thing is that it started less than two weeks before the Champions League final between the two teams.
image rights problem
The problem Delaney is talking about is the image rights. “Real Madrid insists on getting 50% of the players’ image rights in every contract negotiated at the Bernabéu. Mbappe’s representatives are not ready to give up much and the environment close to the situation believes that Real made a mistake in making this request,” says the famous journalist from The Independent.
Mbappe’s lawyer, Delphine Verheiden, is leading the fight against the French Federation for image rights. Not only because of the amount Killian receives from them, but because the attacker does not want to lend his image to certain types of advertising campaigns such as fast food and soda. He is very careful in this regard and PSG will have no problem with this clause, as a desperate measure to renew his contract.
Liverpool, as they indicated in England, will be attentive to the future of events to attempt to fish in a turbulent river. It will not be a simple process, because Salah or Mane will have to leave. Otherwise, it will not be easy to save the wages of the French striker. The Egyptian and the Senegalese will end their relationship in 2023 and the renewals are yet to take place.
Salah has repeatedly said that it is not a financial problem, but the handshake does not come. A case similar to that of Mane who, according to the German press, Bayern Munich is eager to sign since they learned of Lewandowski’s intention to leave Munich. A puzzle whose pieces begin to fit together once the season is over. So far, the external noise has not made Real change its position on Mbappe and they have remained calm…
Source: AS