15 million euros net, 80% of his image rights and a transfer bonus of 100 million euros. These are the numbers of the contract with which Real Madrid has managed, seven years after his first attempt when he was still a Monaco player, to sign Kylian Mbappé. Thus, surpassing the nearly 11 million that Jude Bellingham earns, the 12 million of Vinicius or the 12.5 million that David Alaba pockets, the Frenchman will be the highest paid in the white team and in LaLiga. However, he says goodbye to a rain of millions by giving up that optional season that Nasser Al Khelaïfi insisted on camouflaging as a fixed season in that last act of renewal exhibited on the grass of the Parc des Princes on May 21, 2022. Specifically , about 150 million.
Kylian Mbappé’s departure from PSG has been forged in a tough battle of economic trenches. A game of many chapters and numbers fought between two strategists who sought to minimize the collateral damage, both economic and honorary, of a contractual agreement with small print. Thus, the Parisian president and the Bondy president held that t-shirt with the number ‘2025’ printed on the back. Until that year he would remain in Paris. However, the play had a trick. Mbappé had not signed a three-year contract, but rather two fixed years plus an optional one, which he ended up renouncing by issuing a letter. PSG left him off the Japan tour in response. There was a lot of money at stake for both sides.
At that time, when PSG began to accept the reality of the irreversible desire for the departure of its franchise player, the struggle began to determine the modality of his departure, conditioned by a good handful of factors. Among them, the question of time and phases and, of course, the economic aspect between two of the most powerful actors on the football planet. They were not going to give away a euro, nor an ounce of honor. In that last contract that Mbappé signed with PSG, not only the most lucrative in the history of sport but also in football according to L’Equipe, he made sure to earn 72 million euros gross per season. Thus, if he had fulfilled the entire contract (two years plus one), the forward would have earned 630 million euros gross, thus exceeding Messi’s 555 million in 2017 after his renewal with Barça.
All this without counting the bonus of 130 million euros for simply signing the renewal. If there are salary supplements, they are unknown. But the point of contention was in another agreed transfer bonus, this one linked to his continuity: 180 million euros (payable in three payments in as many years if he completed them at the club) when he was a free player in the summer of 2022.
The cousin of discord
The Frenchman received the first payment of that bonus, but in the month of August, as AS could confirm, Bondy’s star promised to forgive 80 million euros in loyalty bonuses that corresponded to him, but PSG is waiting for a last gesture on his part. In addition, the Qatari leaders also expect the footballer to give up a percentage of the transfer bonus in the event that his transfer to Real Madrid ends up being finalized. This figure could range between 100 and 150 million euros, which is perceived as a kind of covert transfer that would benefit the club, given that it would not receive any direct amount for the transfer of Mbappé. That is, Mbappé not only gives up an impressive salary, but almost three quarters of that transfer bonus of 180 million euros.
On the opposite side, PSG is left orphaned by one of the three best players in the world. One of his city and his quarry. But he frees up a huge amount of money that will allow him freedom of movement in the transfer market without worrying about Financial Fair Play. According to the renowned Ben Jacobs, closely linked to the rules of the market, the Parisian team has already “released 225 million euros gross, including taxes and social security.” A significant part of these funds will be reinvested in the “mega-summer”, as defined by L’Equipe, in which the foundations of the new Parisian project will be laid. The next chapter of the longest signing in the world will be the long-awaited presentation, after signing a contract in which he will see how his emoluments are reduced. At least, at a purely salary level. The 72 million euros gross annual salary and the part of the continuity bonus that he gives up, those 80 million euros: more than 150 million euros.
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