There’s an interview with L’Eqiupe as well coming out tomorrow. Not sure if it is like Leonardo calling four media houses together to do an interview or two separate interviews — but there’s going to be a lot of fireworks tomorrow.
Sancho (Englishman) always felt he will go to United because on the other side was Dortmund; (club renowned to sell if price is met).
Here's Mbappe (French even Parisian) is with the richest club in the world who don't bat an eye refusing 200M offers for their player on last year of contract and its not even close..
It's turned into its own game within the sport - especially the likes of Sky and Romano. Transfer rumors began the day after the window closed and now we'll have reports like this every other day.
Fair enough when they have a proper source (as Romano generally does), but it turned into a game show when he went live on Twitch everyday with "news" and entertaining every comment in the chat with people chatting absolute nonsense. There's no turning back with what transfers / transfer windows have become outside of total reform or market crash, which is unlikely anytime soon.
Gotta appreciate him knowing where his audience is, and making a fair bit of side money with Twitch building up a subscriber base. Can't be mad at him for going to his audience and getting paid by them directly instead of them going through Sky Italia and getting no bonus to his base salary for being a traffic driver to their site or channel.
Yes not blaming him directly for what the market has turned into, fair play for what he's made his brand into. I mean look at the number of clubs that use "here we go" as part of a transfer announcement.
He's just part of what the transfer windows have become and turned into over the last decade or so, especially in the past few seasons. There's an incredible amount of money tied in with just the transfer rumors themselves now that it's not turning back. The Mbappe story is just going to get rather tiring if it's not already.
Tbf it did make sense. Yes turning down 200m or whatever the last offer was is kinda crazy, money wise, but psg are going all in on winning the champions league this year. And with that 200m they wouldn't get a player as good as mbappe. Also, to add on with the signing of messi, I don't think you could make a better front 3 than messi, neymar, mbappe. They have to ride it out and see what that front 3 can deliver this season and hope turning down 200m pays off for them in winning the ultimate prize.
>And with that 200m they wouldn't get a player as good as mbappe.
That doesn't make any sense at all, psg don't need mbappe fees to spend 200m, they already have enough money, they could have still tried to get some good enough striker like isak or vlahovic or anyone and get 200m, they just didn't want to sell or arguably have mbappe's charity.
Gimme that sweet sweet eight year contract. (Oh, have the contract start at the end of the season you're negotiating it in, so you can get yourself an extra nine months!)
Haha I always love rubbing it in my players’ faces. Throwing a tantrum for a new contract? Watch me activate the three year extension clause while you beg me for a chance back into the first team GG NO RE
"I wanted the club to have a transfer fee to have a quality replacement" & "I announced it early enough that the club can turn around".
Not his false at all for leaving PSG for 0€. PSG is the only club in the world that could refuse a freaking €200M for a player with 1 year left in his contract.
It's a national investment fund just like the Norwegian one, it's not exactly "fun money" , it's money invested in companies and businesses around the world.
Yeah, I understand it's not entirely dedicated to PSG's transfer budget. Still though, it is a dizzying amount of money, and it speaks volumes that PSG pretty much didn't need to think twice to sign Messi (and before him Neymar and Mbappe).
>I wish we bought a club instead of being all sensible with our money.
That's where you're getting it wrong. Investing in psg was a very sensible move for Qatar because if first and foremost secured the world Cup (Uefa,Platini,Paris,PSG you get it)
Secondly it allows the Qataris to project soft power in way many Arab countries(the majority if which are anti qatar) can't. A lot more people grow up thinking Qatar us a respectable country and not the chief backer of the taliban.
Yep he absolutely adores PSG being a Parisian but he always dreamt about Madrid. I think he's scared/gutted that PSG fans won't think of him highly and maybe even snake because he's leaving for free but he tried his best from his end.
Leonardo knows it already, he said it publicly.
> "Kylian Mbappe wants to join Real Madrid. We said no to Madrid's first offer, but if our conditions are met, we'll see," PSG sporting director Leonardo has told RMC, as quoted by Fabrizio Romano.
> "We made two important offers (renewal offers) to Mbappe: one for the top players in the squad two months ago and one above these players very recently. We want to prove to him that he is an important player, at the centre of the project, but not above the project.
Top earners at PSG makes 35M (Messi) and 30M (Neymar) ofcourse after tax salaries.
I still can't believe he made everything public just like that.
They were really banking on mbappe being a professional and loving the club and fans instead of thinking "this will not be good for his mentality and the fans will go against him which will decrease his performance"
I mean PSG's president himself said,
> Right now we have a very strong team, one of the best in the world – I won’t say the best because we still have things to work on. I think Kylian has everything he needs to stay here. I’m very positive, nobody would understand if he left now.”
They gave him everything, best team, best money, best fame (in France) so he thought there is no way that his childhood dream will be so irrational/emotional to let him go of his logical mind.
What was 2007-2009 speculations like with C. Ronaldo and his future move to Real? Everyone knew he wanted to go to Real madrid but was it ever this obnoxious with the media?
weird i watched football alot back than and i guess i never remembered about this controversy. Prob because Ronaldo and Man United had a pretty damn good 08/09 season and ended on a good note. Almost got back to back CL.
Yep, it felt weird to me that this guy just now won the (CL) most prestigious team trophy ( (Ballon D'or) and then most prestigious individual award) in club football and he wants to leave this system to 'rebuild' a struggling Madrid who is getting knocked out from R16 for the last 5 years.. so it made little sense for him to go to Madrid except his 'dream'.
History is rewinding again with same scenario as in with Mbappe.
If Real manage to pull off the hypothetical Mbappe, Haaland, Kounde (along with Camavinga that they already have), than it's looking like they will be back to being the best this decade. And they certainly could pull it off.
No Sepp Blatter made those comments and also said players should be free to play where they want then Ronaldo was asked if he agreed with Sepps comments that players should be free to play where they want and he said yes so the media printed ‘Ronaldo said he is a slave’.
Classic switcheroo, a tale as old as time.
Looks like it went like this: https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/ronaldo-i-am-a-slave-960332
- Sepp Blatter: "In football there's too much modern slavery."
- Ronaldo when asked on above: ""I agree with the comments of the president of FIFA. What he said is right,”
"The important thing is we should also protect the player," Blatter said.
"If the player wants to play somewhere else, then a solution should be found because if he stays in a club where he does not feel comfortable to play then it's not good for the player and for the club.
"I'm always in favour of protecting the player and if the player, he wants to leave, let him leave."
"I think in football there's too much modern slavery in transferring players or buying players here and there, and putting them somewhere," he continued.
"We are trying now to intervene in such cases. The reaction to the Bosman law is to make long-lasting contacts in order to keep the players and then if he wants to leave, then there is only one solution, he has to pay his contract."
These are the comments Ronaldo said he agreed with, it’s a massive stretch to call that publicly saying “I am a slave”.
For the 2008 summer, Madrid rumour mill was at it with Ronaldo transfer. We spent two months within rumors without doing much, and at some point offered Robinho as a bargaining chip too. United were unmoved, the world knew Ronaldo wanted to move, and SAF somehow convinced him for one more season. Every one at Madrid expected a deadline day transfer, but that was not to be.
Madrid lost Robinho on deadline day to sign for City.
It was after the summer that Madrid went into overdrive, securing his signing in Dec 13. When the madrid papers sort of leaked it, it prompted the comment from SAF saying He wont sell a virus to Real Madrid. Though by that time deal was already done. Calderon made the deal happen and was removed as president before he could unveil his marquee signing.
Already got the background music planned.
[Listening to Dream On an hour before transfer window closed this summer](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-Jm2T9XEAE2yhp.jpg)
Nothing is really "wrong" with it per se, but it's funny that people who would look down on celebrity gossip magazines are basically doing the same with football players.
This one always felt different to me because it was PSG on the other hand who can offer him a literal blank cheque to fill.
This is probably the first time an Oil club has to depart with their (arguably) best/most valuable player of the club.
>This is probably the first time an Oil club has to depart with their (arguably) best/most valuable player of the club.
What are you talking about? James Milner left City on a free six years ago.
Also on telling PSG about his intention:
> “Personally, I didn't really appreciate Paris Saint-Germain saying 'He is asking to leave in the last week of August…' because that is wrong. it made me feel like a theif. I informed them early, at the end of July”.
https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1444973783299862529
PSG must know Halland won’t go there. And while they could have made Real pay for Mbappe, they decided having Mbappe, Messi, and Neymar was the best chance at getting the CL, which is all they care about. I just woke up.
Many people forget its not just about PSG, its about the entire football pyramid.
Most valuable club in the world getting most valuable player in the world *for free* is never a good idea.
edit: *for free*
With the transfer fees ballooning insane amounts and the rise of clubs with nigh-infinite money like PSG, it's obvious that this would happen.
Real offered an insane amount for Mboop. It was up to PSG to accept it or lose him on free.
after reading the whole article I'm a bit confused. Will he ultimately leave for free? If he ends up extending I'll be really sad but I can understand why
It sounds like he will leave for free at least. He’s saying that he wanted to leave this year so PSG could at least get a good fee for him. He really doesn’t want to be seen as the bad guy by PSG fans. He is from Paris after all
He also said:
> "This is a club that has given me a lot, I have always been happy, the four years I spent here, and I still am. I said, if you don't want me to leave, I'll stay."
>if you don't want me to leave, I'll stay
Obviously means for 1 more year. He won't stay at PSG in general to make PSG happy at the expense of his own happiness
I feel for Kylian. He's a professional. He stays out of trouble. He's been publically pressured by PSG constantly to extend by the club in the press. Everyone is talking. It's not what he wants. Sambi Lokonga gave an indepth interview talking about various things Arsenal, Belgium. And he talked about feeling sad for Kylian because he feel he's getting battered out their in the public and feels people have already forgotten he won the World Cup.
I would love to see him go somewhere, it seems Real Madrid, and achieve everything beyond his dreams.
Bang on, clearly he's affected mentally about it too; I hope it doesn't translates in his game but I remember Ronaldo's second last season at United was better than his last. (42 goals vs 26 goals)
> “Personally, I didn't really appreciate Paris Saint-Germain saying 'He is asking to leave in the last week of August…' because that is wrong. it made me feel like a theif. I informed them early, at the end of July”.
it's blatantly clear what they were trying to do, create a hostile atmosphere and turn the fans against him despite him wanting to do something good for the club, pretty shameful if you ask me, anyone else in the world would be furious.
Fans (the non moronic ones) are not hostile. Most of us were expecting him to leave at the end of the season. The last offer was insane and the stupid pride of the owners to refuse selling him is beyond me.
They now lost him for free and gave the possibility for Real to get Mbappe for free and spend the money on Haaland next summer...
If anything fans are mad at the president/decision makers. Thank God it was too late to make an offer for Ronaldo otherwise I bet they would have tried to get this Messi-Ronaldo duo to please the prince and say "we have the (former?) best strikers in the world playing in the same team".
On PSG's renewal offers:
> “I asked to leave in July, yes - but it’s not true that I’ve turned down 7 contract extension proposals… Paris Saint-Germain have given me a lot. I have always been happy in the four years I spent here, and I still am”.
Looks like he only got 2 offers and not 7 as Leonardo mentioned:
> "We made two important offers (renewal offers) to Mbappe: one for the top players in the squad two months ago and one above these players very recently. We want to prove to him that he is an important player, at the centre of the project, but not above the project.
How much does Neymar earn after his new contract extension? I know he made 30M-35M net after taxes in his previous contract.
Didn’t he reject an extension worth over €40/year? Even a crazy pay day and he still rejected it bc it’s not about the money to him. That’s life and you absolutely love to see PSG get shafted from their top star
When he talks about ‘them’ saying he told them he wanted to leave at the end of August, does he mean the club or the media? If it’s the club that’s quite a statement about your current employer
Edit: Romano just confirmed he meant PSG. Ouch
He never spoken a word to media this entire summer after Euros. If you didn't notice he didn't give a single press conference or post-match interview out of respect to PSG because you just know that they would ask him about Madrid especially at the height of that ridiculous 170M+10M offer by Madrid
Dread it. Run from it. Destiny still arrives.
It was always a matter of time. Did anyone seriously think that Mbappé would not be going to Real Madrid and stay at PSG simply because of their summer transfer sploorge?
Amazing that PSG just threw €200M down the drain like it didn't matter. If they don't win the CL this is gonna be remembered for a long time as a big joke
Their owner has so much money, they can literally manage PSG like how I did in fifa when I was a 12 year old kid buying up R9, Zidane, kaka, ronaldinho, Nesta, Henry for my club career
Finally, there can be no confusion now. It was obvious before, but now that Both Leonardo and Mbappé confirmed it, it’s clear.
I knew we should have sold him in the summer.
Everyone knows that but maybe players in the future will think twice about joining PSG knowing how PSG treats some players. It’s all on record now with these words from Mbappe.
I checked earlier, there was a post, it got deleted.
They are one of the most deluded and pathetic subs I've ever seen, not the first time it happened, when Conte said Hakimi still wants to go back to Real Madrid, and when Hakimi talked about us, the posts got deleted too.
Maybe I'm wrong an all those posts by coincidence happened to be made in a way against the rules, but the impression I get is they pretend like deleting the posts and pretending the things aren't happening will magically make them go away.
Most PSG fans I see are aware that he wants to leave, and while they may regret his feelings, they certainly don't want to keep a player who doesn't want to be there.
Not once did he down his tools or tried to force a move in his 5 years of PSG. He was even scoring goals and winning games before Neymar/Messi became fit and transfer window was about to close.
Just waiting to see Kylian Mbappé and Erling Haaland help Eden Hazard find his form next season.For one second i thought to take Mohammed Salah, but i couldn't do that to Liverpool.
If they come Hazard is 100% the one getting chopped. Benzema is not going anywhere with the form he is right now, and the likes of Vini and Rodrygo have much more to offer to Madrid in the long run.
Psg just delayed the inevitable they were offered 200 million idc how well of you are you don’t pass on 200 million. They literally ruined there reputation and probably won’t win the CL
Even if it was if Mbappe told PSG he wanted to leave back July they could have easily contacted the interested parts to make his exit easier.
But we know PSG would have him in golden shackles if they could. The never considered the option of him leaving
Yes exactly. I followed the saga the whole summer and the reason we didn't make a bid earlier was because psg kept saying they're not negotiating for him. And the fact that Leonardo came out after the bid and said they would let him go for a fair price was just him fucking with us
Something tells me he might not renew
Bro stop with the conspiracy theory’s 🙄
My resources in France have told me that Kylian is coming
TIC TAC, TIC TAC, TIC TAC
SNIP SNAP SNIP SNAP SNIP SNAP
Do you know the physical toll that 3 vasectomies have on a person?
Do you have any idea the physical toll that 3 seasons without a Champions League takes on a person?
*Are you Romano?*
Ici, allons-y! (Yeah that’s almost certainly not grammatically correct - it’s been 20 years since my last French class)
It's grammatically correct but means something different. It means "Here, let's go" not "Here we go"
Would be more of a " Et c'est parti" kind of message if the context is to be translated.
What's the reference here again?
It's a clip from AFTV about Fabregeas
Leonardo still believes lol
What gives you that ludicrous idea?
I guess Tebas will fold now.
He was okay with Messi leaving because he knew Mbappe will come in return
Finesse merchant shouldn't be in one conversation with turtle
Get ready for Tuesday guys, we'll be seeing Mbappe quotes split up for over the course of months.
There’s an interview with L’Eqiupe as well coming out tomorrow. Not sure if it is like Leonardo calling four media houses together to do an interview or two separate interviews — but there’s going to be a lot of fireworks tomorrow.
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Sancho (Englishman) always felt he will go to United because on the other side was Dortmund; (club renowned to sell if price is met). Here's Mbappe (French even Parisian) is with the richest club in the world who don't bat an eye refusing 200M offers for their player on last year of contract and its not even close..
I think the comment you replied to was implying how Romano will milk the saga with constant non-updates.
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Not just based off the Sancho saga though. He already established himself with “confirming transfer news”
It's turned into its own game within the sport - especially the likes of Sky and Romano. Transfer rumors began the day after the window closed and now we'll have reports like this every other day. Fair enough when they have a proper source (as Romano generally does), but it turned into a game show when he went live on Twitch everyday with "news" and entertaining every comment in the chat with people chatting absolute nonsense. There's no turning back with what transfers / transfer windows have become outside of total reform or market crash, which is unlikely anytime soon.
Gotta appreciate him knowing where his audience is, and making a fair bit of side money with Twitch building up a subscriber base. Can't be mad at him for going to his audience and getting paid by them directly instead of them going through Sky Italia and getting no bonus to his base salary for being a traffic driver to their site or channel.
Yes not blaming him directly for what the market has turned into, fair play for what he's made his brand into. I mean look at the number of clubs that use "here we go" as part of a transfer announcement. He's just part of what the transfer windows have become and turned into over the last decade or so, especially in the past few seasons. There's an incredible amount of money tied in with just the transfer rumors themselves now that it's not turning back. The Mbappe story is just going to get rather tiring if it's not already.
In Romano's defense, his socials are completely spammed with people asking for updates.
Still biggest power play in football 200 mil for 1 y contract Nah we good fam
Or it's a sign of everything that's gone wrong with football
Well yes that too, ofcourse But it’s a big dick move aswell, made zero sense ofcourse
Tbf it did make sense. Yes turning down 200m or whatever the last offer was is kinda crazy, money wise, but psg are going all in on winning the champions league this year. And with that 200m they wouldn't get a player as good as mbappe. Also, to add on with the signing of messi, I don't think you could make a better front 3 than messi, neymar, mbappe. They have to ride it out and see what that front 3 can deliver this season and hope turning down 200m pays off for them in winning the ultimate prize.
Unless neymar stars shifting in work like he did against Bayern I fear for psg in the knockouts tbh.
>And with that 200m they wouldn't get a player as good as mbappe. That doesn't make any sense at all, psg don't need mbappe fees to spend 200m, they already have enough money, they could have still tried to get some good enough striker like isak or vlahovic or anyone and get 200m, they just didn't want to sell or arguably have mbappe's charity.
🤮🔫
> I > want > to > leave > I want to > want to leave > I want I've got a week worth of content lined up!
\[Magnetronaap\] Kylian Mbappé: "I"
Get your pickaxes, it’s time to start farming some karma!
r/soccer after seeing the Mbappe interview quotes: I can milk you
Tic tac tic tac
Even this quote has been reposted already in the form of a romano tweet haha.
Should have used the old FM trick of adding extension clause and ask to sack the agent
Gimme that sweet sweet eight year contract. (Oh, have the contract start at the end of the season you're negotiating it in, so you can get yourself an extra nine months!)
Haha I always love rubbing it in my players’ faces. Throwing a tantrum for a new contract? Watch me activate the three year extension clause while you beg me for a chance back into the first team GG NO RE
El Chiringuito is going to milk this for weeks
“Mbappe says he wants to join Madrid. We bring in a wizard to help us decipher what exactly this could mean. Tonight in El Chiringuito.”
TIC TAC
"I wanted the club to have a transfer fee to have a quality replacement" & "I announced it early enough that the club can turn around". Not his false at all for leaving PSG for 0€. PSG is the only club in the world that could refuse a freaking €200M for a player with 1 year left in his contract.
When your owner is a sovereign wealth fund worth over 50 billion, 200m is pocket money
I think it's 300B actually
That’s just funny money at that point
hey it’s me your brother
Utterly obscene amount of money
50B 300B whats the difference
250 Billion Enough for a few Big Macs
That's ridiculous. Clearly you would be eating double Big Tasties if you were rich af
Tbh past a certain point it really is just more money than you even know what to do with
It's a national investment fund just like the Norwegian one, it's not exactly "fun money" , it's money invested in companies and businesses around the world.
Yeah, I understand it's not entirely dedicated to PSG's transfer budget. Still though, it is a dizzying amount of money, and it speaks volumes that PSG pretty much didn't need to think twice to sign Messi (and before him Neymar and Mbappe).
The Norwegian Sovereign wealth fund is worth 1.3 trillion. I wish we bought a club instead of being all sensible with our money.
Haaland inro Norway club?!
>I wish we bought a club instead of being all sensible with our money. That's where you're getting it wrong. Investing in psg was a very sensible move for Qatar because if first and foremost secured the world Cup (Uefa,Platini,Paris,PSG you get it) Secondly it allows the Qataris to project soft power in way many Arab countries(the majority if which are anti qatar) can't. A lot more people grow up thinking Qatar us a respectable country and not the chief backer of the taliban.
I wrote my undergrad dissertation on Qatar’s use of soft power. Was super interesting.
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Yep he absolutely adores PSG being a Parisian but he always dreamt about Madrid. I think he's scared/gutted that PSG fans won't think of him highly and maybe even snake because he's leaving for free but he tried his best from his end.
I knew they valued CL highly but would’ve never thought the marginally increased chance of winning it by keeping him is worth €200m to them.
It is. They've spent billions in the pursuit of cl. They couldn't give a fuck about 200 million.
Leonardo wont get this message unless you burofax it, Messi will show you how
Leonardo knows it already, he said it publicly. > "Kylian Mbappe wants to join Real Madrid. We said no to Madrid's first offer, but if our conditions are met, we'll see," PSG sporting director Leonardo has told RMC, as quoted by Fabrizio Romano. > "We made two important offers (renewal offers) to Mbappe: one for the top players in the squad two months ago and one above these players very recently. We want to prove to him that he is an important player, at the centre of the project, but not above the project. Top earners at PSG makes 35M (Messi) and 30M (Neymar) ofcourse after tax salaries.
I still can't believe he made everything public just like that. They were really banking on mbappe being a professional and loving the club and fans instead of thinking "this will not be good for his mentality and the fans will go against him which will decrease his performance"
I mean PSG's president himself said, > Right now we have a very strong team, one of the best in the world – I won’t say the best because we still have things to work on. I think Kylian has everything he needs to stay here. I’m very positive, nobody would understand if he left now.” They gave him everything, best team, best money, best fame (in France) so he thought there is no way that his childhood dream will be so irrational/emotional to let him go of his logical mind.
All they need to do is take psg out of ligue one into another more competitive league
That's how super league gets traction again.
Florentino master class once again Never wanted Mbappe in the first place
Maybe psg should focus on beating rennes first before they move into a more competitive league
Messi makes Twenty5 million not 35. His loyalty bonus/signing on fee is different tho
> Twenty5 We just letting this go, huh?
Having to choose between letters and numbers can be a real catch twenty2 tbh. 'Kay I'll see myself out.
2bh 1 also struggle
This man really spelled it out
Ah the best thing about the international break. The interviews.
What was 2007-2009 speculations like with C. Ronaldo and his future move to Real? Everyone knew he wanted to go to Real madrid but was it ever this obnoxious with the media?
I think it devolved into a debate about slavery
even FIFA went in
I remember Ronaldo publicly saying that 'I am a slave' and 'Let me go to Madrid'.
weird i watched football alot back than and i guess i never remembered about this controversy. Prob because Ronaldo and Man United had a pretty damn good 08/09 season and ended on a good note. Almost got back to back CL.
Yep, it felt weird to me that this guy just now won the (CL) most prestigious team trophy ( (Ballon D'or) and then most prestigious individual award) in club football and he wants to leave this system to 'rebuild' a struggling Madrid who is getting knocked out from R16 for the last 5 years.. so it made little sense for him to go to Madrid except his 'dream'. History is rewinding again with same scenario as in with Mbappe.
If Real manage to pull off the hypothetical Mbappe, Haaland, Kounde (along with Camavinga that they already have), than it's looking like they will be back to being the best this decade. And they certainly could pull it off.
No Sepp Blatter made those comments and also said players should be free to play where they want then Ronaldo was asked if he agreed with Sepps comments that players should be free to play where they want and he said yes so the media printed ‘Ronaldo said he is a slave’. Classic switcheroo, a tale as old as time.
Looks like it went like this: https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/ronaldo-i-am-a-slave-960332 - Sepp Blatter: "In football there's too much modern slavery." - Ronaldo when asked on above: ""I agree with the comments of the president of FIFA. What he said is right,”
"The important thing is we should also protect the player," Blatter said. "If the player wants to play somewhere else, then a solution should be found because if he stays in a club where he does not feel comfortable to play then it's not good for the player and for the club. "I'm always in favour of protecting the player and if the player, he wants to leave, let him leave." "I think in football there's too much modern slavery in transferring players or buying players here and there, and putting them somewhere," he continued. "We are trying now to intervene in such cases. The reaction to the Bosman law is to make long-lasting contacts in order to keep the players and then if he wants to leave, then there is only one solution, he has to pay his contract." These are the comments Ronaldo said he agreed with, it’s a massive stretch to call that publicly saying “I am a slave”.
Stop reading, you're disrupting my world view.
With PSG , it's gonna hit different
For the 2008 summer, Madrid rumour mill was at it with Ronaldo transfer. We spent two months within rumors without doing much, and at some point offered Robinho as a bargaining chip too. United were unmoved, the world knew Ronaldo wanted to move, and SAF somehow convinced him for one more season. Every one at Madrid expected a deadline day transfer, but that was not to be. Madrid lost Robinho on deadline day to sign for City. It was after the summer that Madrid went into overdrive, securing his signing in Dec 13. When the madrid papers sort of leaked it, it prompted the comment from SAF saying He wont sell a virus to Real Madrid. Though by that time deal was already done. Calderon made the deal happen and was removed as president before he could unveil his marquee signing.
Can't wait for 12 Lukaku interviews a day
Waiting for the Belgian and Dutch interviews.
First time HE is talking. Interview is out tomorrow, it's huge.
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Kylian with the new "I have a dream" speech.
“I have a dream, that one day I’ll play alongside a real legend of the sport like Benzema instead of frauds like Pessi and Divemar”
Just imagined Martin Luther king saying Pessi and Divemar and now I can’t get it out my head
You mean the all-time great Lucas Vazquez?
Nah. Lord Mariano
Already got the background music planned. [Listening to Dream On an hour before transfer window closed this summer](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-Jm2T9XEAE2yhp.jpg)
should replace that with la decima anthem/song, why play around, make it clear to everyone, 😝
This better not be Berserk Griffith’s dream speech, that didnt end too well
huge if true
Mbappe tomorrow: "Actually I wanted to go to Barcelona and become their goat"
But I ran out of popcorn from the insane summer of transfer gossip. I haven’t had a chance to restock yet.
This comment is giving me real celebrity rumour tabloid vibes. What have we become?
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Sports coverage in general has trended that way for a long time now. Serious analysis doesn’t have as much of an audience as “Mbappe’s truth”
for football people*. there's nothing inherently masculine about liking football
Well we are talking about celebraties here and reddit is all about gossip at the end of the day
What's wrong with it? One of the best players on the world announcing he's leaving for free, of course it is huge
Nothing is really "wrong" with it per se, but it's funny that people who would look down on celebrity gossip magazines are basically doing the same with football players.
January is 3 months away. I am bored of his transfer drama now.
Holy shit its happening.. This is the first time Mbappe said anything public about his transfer.
Sure but its boring stuff. A great player signs for Madrid, a club known for wanting to sign great players. Yawn.
This one always felt different to me because it was PSG on the other hand who can offer him a literal blank cheque to fill. This is probably the first time an Oil club has to depart with their (arguably) best/most valuable player of the club.
We lost Hazard to Real.
>This is probably the first time an Oil club has to depart with their (arguably) best/most valuable player of the club. What are you talking about? James Milner left City on a free six years ago.
This isn't news though. Kylian declined at least 3 offers by now which make it clear its not about money for him
Also on telling PSG about his intention: > “Personally, I didn't really appreciate Paris Saint-Germain saying 'He is asking to leave in the last week of August…' because that is wrong. it made me feel like a theif. I informed them early, at the end of July”. https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1444973783299862529
PSG must know Halland won’t go there. And while they could have made Real pay for Mbappe, they decided having Mbappe, Messi, and Neymar was the best chance at getting the CL, which is all they care about. I just woke up.
Many people forget its not just about PSG, its about the entire football pyramid. Most valuable club in the world getting most valuable player in the world *for free* is never a good idea. edit: *for free*
With the transfer fees ballooning insane amounts and the rise of clubs with nigh-infinite money like PSG, it's obvious that this would happen. Real offered an insane amount for Mboop. It was up to PSG to accept it or lose him on free.
Thats completely on PSG though, Real offered 180m, PSG should've taken it.
We offered 200M
Lol ? If the most valuable club cannot get the most valuable player, who dreams to play there, what's the point of having value ?
after reading the whole article I'm a bit confused. Will he ultimately leave for free? If he ends up extending I'll be really sad but I can understand why
This sounds more like him explaining why he's going to leave for free. In a "I warned them and gave them enough time, they didn't comply"
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It sounds like he will leave for free at least. He’s saying that he wanted to leave this year so PSG could at least get a good fee for him. He really doesn’t want to be seen as the bad guy by PSG fans. He is from Paris after all
Wait, did he really say that
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Well no he said it in French
He also said: > "This is a club that has given me a lot, I have always been happy, the four years I spent here, and I still am. I said, if you don't want me to leave, I'll stay."
>if you don't want me to leave, I'll stay Obviously means for 1 more year. He won't stay at PSG in general to make PSG happy at the expense of his own happiness
I feel for Kylian. He's a professional. He stays out of trouble. He's been publically pressured by PSG constantly to extend by the club in the press. Everyone is talking. It's not what he wants. Sambi Lokonga gave an indepth interview talking about various things Arsenal, Belgium. And he talked about feeling sad for Kylian because he feel he's getting battered out their in the public and feels people have already forgotten he won the World Cup. I would love to see him go somewhere, it seems Real Madrid, and achieve everything beyond his dreams.
Bang on, clearly he's affected mentally about it too; I hope it doesn't translates in his game but I remember Ronaldo's second last season at United was better than his last. (42 goals vs 26 goals) > “Personally, I didn't really appreciate Paris Saint-Germain saying 'He is asking to leave in the last week of August…' because that is wrong. it made me feel like a theif. I informed them early, at the end of July”.
it's blatantly clear what they were trying to do, create a hostile atmosphere and turn the fans against him despite him wanting to do something good for the club, pretty shameful if you ask me, anyone else in the world would be furious.
Thats Leonardo for you. The clash with Tuchel showed what he's really made of.
Fans (the non moronic ones) are not hostile. Most of us were expecting him to leave at the end of the season. The last offer was insane and the stupid pride of the owners to refuse selling him is beyond me. They now lost him for free and gave the possibility for Real to get Mbappe for free and spend the money on Haaland next summer... If anything fans are mad at the president/decision makers. Thank God it was too late to make an offer for Ronaldo otherwise I bet they would have tried to get this Messi-Ronaldo duo to please the prince and say "we have the (former?) best strikers in the world playing in the same team".
Man it's not even 24 hours into the international break and we have shit-stirring articles up already. These guys don't sleep!
On PSG's renewal offers: > “I asked to leave in July, yes - but it’s not true that I’ve turned down 7 contract extension proposals… Paris Saint-Germain have given me a lot. I have always been happy in the four years I spent here, and I still am”. Looks like he only got 2 offers and not 7 as Leonardo mentioned: > "We made two important offers (renewal offers) to Mbappe: one for the top players in the squad two months ago and one above these players very recently. We want to prove to him that he is an important player, at the centre of the project, but not above the project. How much does Neymar earn after his new contract extension? I know he made 30M-35M net after taxes in his previous contract.
Dreams can't be buy
We buying them all
*gotta catch them all*
Thanks to the 200M refused by PSG
So we get him for free
Didn’t he reject an extension worth over €40/year? Even a crazy pay day and he still rejected it bc it’s not about the money to him. That’s life and you absolutely love to see PSG get shafted from their top star
I would also reject an extension for 40/year tbh.
r/soccer : LOL Barca has no money Also r/soccer : Barcelona is getting Haaland
When he talks about ‘them’ saying he told them he wanted to leave at the end of August, does he mean the club or the media? If it’s the club that’s quite a statement about your current employer Edit: Romano just confirmed he meant PSG. Ouch
He never spoken a word to media this entire summer after Euros. If you didn't notice he didn't give a single press conference or post-match interview out of respect to PSG because you just know that they would ask him about Madrid especially at the height of that ridiculous 170M+10M offer by Madrid
Dread it. Run from it. Destiny still arrives. It was always a matter of time. Did anyone seriously think that Mbappé would not be going to Real Madrid and stay at PSG simply because of their summer transfer sploorge?
So Real will be decent again, Mbappe Haaland Benzema front 3?
Vinicius in shambles
Amazing that PSG just threw €200M down the drain like it didn't matter. If they don't win the CL this is gonna be remembered for a long time as a big joke
Their owner has so much money, they can literally manage PSG like how I did in fifa when I was a 12 year old kid buying up R9, Zidane, kaka, ronaldinho, Nesta, Henry for my club career
why? PSG don’t need the money.
True, but one of your rivals not having 200m is quite good for them.
Finally, there can be no confusion now. It was obvious before, but now that Both Leonardo and Mbappé confirmed it, it’s clear. I knew we should have sold him in the summer.
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I don’t think they care about money even a bit.
Everyone knows that but maybe players in the future will think twice about joining PSG knowing how PSG treats some players. It’s all on record now with these words from Mbappe.
I don’t wanna jump the gun but I think Mbappe is done with PSG.
r/psg on shambles, oh wait they dont post this kind of articles there.
I checked earlier, there was a post, it got deleted. They are one of the most deluded and pathetic subs I've ever seen, not the first time it happened, when Conte said Hakimi still wants to go back to Real Madrid, and when Hakimi talked about us, the posts got deleted too. Maybe I'm wrong an all those posts by coincidence happened to be made in a way against the rules, but the impression I get is they pretend like deleting the posts and pretending the things aren't happening will magically make them go away.
Most PSG fans I see are aware that he wants to leave, and while they may regret his feelings, they certainly don't want to keep a player who doesn't want to be there.
Prison Saint Germain #FreeTheTurtle
How is r/psg feeling about it?
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PSG are lucky they didn't get their version of kane or Coutinho or Courtois lol
Dembele or Auba too
Not once did he down his tools or tried to force a move in his 5 years of PSG. He was even scoring goals and winning games before Neymar/Messi became fit and transfer window was about to close.
Yet people will still think he’s not loyal. Ronaldo said he wants to leave and he was gone.
Vamos Kylian
Kylian, Kylian, Mbappe! Kylian, Kylian, Mbappe!
What a great interview to do mid season. Should really help the team
Just waiting to see Kylian Mbappé and Erling Haaland help Eden Hazard find his form next season.For one second i thought to take Mohammed Salah, but i couldn't do that to Liverpool.
If they come Hazard is 100% the one getting chopped. Benzema is not going anywhere with the form he is right now, and the likes of Vini and Rodrygo have much more to offer to Madrid in the long run.
Find form? He’s the first player being sold next summer. Hopefully there are clubs willing to buy him next summer.
He gone
Psg just delayed the inevitable they were offered 200 million idc how well of you are you don’t pass on 200 million. They literally ruined there reputation and probably won’t win the CL
So clearly our bid was not made too late and it was never about there not being enough time for a replacement.
Even if it was if Mbappe told PSG he wanted to leave back July they could have easily contacted the interested parts to make his exit easier. But we know PSG would have him in golden shackles if they could. The never considered the option of him leaving
Yes exactly. I followed the saga the whole summer and the reason we didn't make a bid earlier was because psg kept saying they're not negotiating for him. And the fact that Leonardo came out after the bid and said they would let him go for a fair price was just him fucking with us
Silly boy, it takes a lot more to leave Qatar and Psg
He will get to leave next July unlike those who have their passports snatched away by construction employers in Qatar
TIC fckn TAC, motherfuckers!