Kylian Mbappe’s deal with Real Madrid is still being negotiated, and his salary is still undetermined. Even Paris Saint-Germain expects the 25-year-old to join Real Madrid, although an agreement is still far off.
The general consensus is that Mbappe has opted to leave, but the Madrid offer hasn’t satisfied him or his entourage. Both Liverpool and Arsenal have considered signing him, but neither wants to shatter their wage structure.
Like Lionel Messi at Barcelona, it limits the world’s finest player’s possibilities.
Madrid has changed their strategy over the past five years to cultivate younger players from smaller contracts. After a protracted period where the wage bill was clearly intended to draw Mbappe in, the forward’s 2022 decision to stay at PSG disappointed Bernabeu president Florentino Perez.
