real Madrid announced the signing of the Frenchman Kylian Mbappéformer forward of Paris Saint Germainfor the next five seasons.
The Frenchman joins the white team at the age of 25 after being for several seasons the great objective of the club chaired by Florentino Pérez and after seven campaigns in PSG, and become one of the best players in the world.
After a love-hate story that dates back to 2017 and after four failed attempts to get the Frenchman to wear white, this Monday the striker’s arrival to join the recent European champions was made official.
On February 15, the first stone of the big announcement was laid. Not because it was unexpected, but because of its magnitude. That Thursday afternoon, the day after Valentine’s Day,The Mbappé-PSG love story broke and his reconciliation with Real Madrid began, still with wounds to heal.
It has been seven years since the Spanish club He set his sights on a young footballer born in the town of Bondy, located in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis, northeast of Paris, which dazzled in Monaco.
Just turned 19 years old and a meteoric emergence. In Ligue 1 and in the Champions League. 28 goals and 14 assists in 46 games. Six of these goals in nine Champions League games, all of them in qualifying rounds, took AS Monaco to the semi-finals, where they lost against Juventus.
Real Madrid followed him closely and negotiated the arrival to the capital of Spain of a footballer who, at the age of 14 – in 2012 – visited Valdebebas. and he met his idol, the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo, whose posters he had wallpapered in his parents’ room.
However, Mbappé and his entourage decided to return home and sign for Paris Saint-Germain, that he promised to be, together with the Brazilian Neymar Junior, head of the project; while Madrid won the Champions League year after year.
He did not see his place as indisputable in Madrid and decided to pack his bags for Paris. He signed a star contract and, since then, his name and that of Real Madrid have always been united.
Without success in 2017, Real Madrid saw the possibility of signing Mbappé in 2021. Until the last day of the market. The outcome did not come until August 31, when Paris Saint-Germain rejected 200 million euros for his star despite having only one more year on his contract.
In May 2022 he renewed with PSG until 2025 instead of joining the white team as a free agent, as happened in 2024.
The renewal until 2025 seemed to separate the paths of Mbappé and Real Madrid for a time, but that was not the case. In reality, the forward signed until 2024, with the option to renew one more season. He did not want to do it last summer and Real Madrid’s interest was reactivated.
What’s more, the French club warned him that if he did not renew, it would open the door for him to leave the club.ub. And he took him away from training with the group, but he ended up staying another year. And without signing a new renewal or activating its clause until 2025.
Meanwhile, from the PSG offices, they got rid of Lionel Messi and Neymar and gave him, in case there was any doubt, the keys to the equipment. A strategy to try to convince him, again, at the last minute.
Nothing worked, since Mbappé at 25 years old makes the leap. He leaves France to expose his football in a club that, among refusals, has already won two Champions Leagues.the trophy that resists the Frenchman, to his museum of a new “Santiago Bernabéu” that has a new star.
