Their club’s victory in the Champions League barely digested, and properly celebrated, Real Madrid supporters are preparing to welcome their new “Galactic”, Kylian Mbappé, whose arrival should be made official at the start of the week.
Since the captain of the France team announced his departure from PSG on May 10, all eyes have been on the Spanish capital and everything is converging today for the soap opera to soon end.
The 25-year-old striker has never hidden his attraction to Real, which has made him dream since childhood, and the emblematic Merengue president Florentino Pérez has made it his priority for several seasons.
Questioned after the victory in the Champions League final against Dortmund on Saturday, the 77-year-old businessman once again kicked in, even if the announcement should take place on Monday or Tuesday according to a Source close to the matter.
“Real Madrid and the Champions League are an endless love story. (…) We’re talking about a team that has just won the Champions League, we’re not going to talk about a player who is not one of them,” Pérez said.
Trident
By joining Real Madrid, orphan of a world-class scorer since the departures of Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema, “Kyks” will form alongside Bellingham and Vinicius a new trident capable of continuing to shake Europe — and Spain, where Real won a 36th title this season.
A major challenge for Italian coach Carlo Ancelotti, who nevertheless has the tactical know-how to find how to make them play together and the personality to preserve the balance of a locker room that he judges “healthy“.
According to the Spanish press, the outlines of the contract have already been defined and Mbappé should receive one of the biggest salaries in the club’s history, around 35 million euros gross per season, just above the two current stars of the club. locker room, but far from his Parisian emoluments, estimated at 70 million euros annually, excluding bonuses.
His free transfer should also be accompanied by a signing bonus of more than 100 million euros and an unprecedented distribution of his image rights.
Real, usually very careful about this aspect, agreed to make an exception for this extraordinary player and to deviate from its habits, the Iberian media evoking a distribution of 80%-20% in favor of the Frenchman. A sign that Madrid president Florentino Perez is ready to roll out the red carpet for the top scorer in PSG history.
In recent years, his entourage and Real have always been in contact even if the player has failed on numerous occasions at the Madrid club, notably in 2022 by extending to everyone’s surprise with PSG, with a pharaonic contract at stake. .
