Mbappé will not renew, but rules out leaving this summer: "I didn't say they would sell me to Madrid"

13 months ago, at the end of May 2022, Kylian Mbappé closed the door on Real Madrid, to whom he had given his “yes”, and opened up his future to Paris Saint-Germain, receiving a succulent bonus for renewing and ensuring the best salary in the world: 50 million net, 100 bonus for extending his contract for three seasons.. A renewal that cost PSG more than 400 million gross. They gave him the keys to the club.

A year later, after another failure in the Champions League and the departures of Leo Messi and Sergio Ramos already confirmed, PSG had been working for months on another extension to Mbappé's contract, which ended in June 2024 although the player, if he wanted , could extend it to June 2025. Nasser Al-Khelaifi was confident that all the money he had put around the footballer would seal his continuity, but this Monday night he received a letter that infuriated him. As advanced by L'Equipe and EL MUNDO can confirm, only a few months after that photo of Mbappé and Al-Khelaifi on the day of his renewal, the Frenchman has informed PSG that he will not extend his contract beyond 2024. “I did not say that I wanted to be sold to Real Madrid or that I wanted to leave, only that I will not activate the option of the additional year (until 2025). With PSG there has never been talk of a renewal and I'm happy to continue for another year”, he explained in an interview with 'La Gazzetta dello Sport'.

On the morning of this Tuesday, the player has denied his intention to leave the Parisian club this summer, assuring that he will complete the remaining year of his contract: “Lies. At the same time, the bigger it is, the more it passes. I have already said that I will continue next season at PSG where I am very happy”.

The news has fallen like lead at the headquarters of the French team, more for the forms than for the fact itself. “We are a bit in shock”, they admit to EL MUNDO from within PSG. They hoped to negotiate the extension this summer, calmly, while they rebuilt the club after the goodbye of Messi and Ramos, also working on the departure of Neymar and coordinating with Mbappé the signing of the new coach, but they have met with a resounding “no”. and media of the striker. A step forward that has to do directly with Real Madrid.

Since the departure of Benzema, in the Castellana they saw Mbappé as the illusion of the summer of 2024. With the resentment over his rejection now over and several friendly conversations with his entourage also established, the Frenchman reappeared as the final piece in a dream puzzle together with Vinicius and Rodrygo, to whom the club has awarded the '7' and the 'eleven'. In Chamartín, yes, they demanded some public movements by the player. They were not going to enter the tug-of-war of the summer of 2021, when Madrid made several offers for the attacker and found the constant “no” from Al-Khelaifi. The strategy now is different: wait, wait and wait, with the ball in PSG's court.

After the World Cup in Qatar and in full reconstruction of the team, the plans of the Paris team no longer include letting Mbappé escape for free. The 200 million spent only on him in one season weigh heavily, the Financial Fair Play is tightening and the need to rethink his strategy as well. That is why from the environment of the French club a message is outlined: “Either renewal or transfer.”

What does change this statement from Mbappé is the situation of the negotiation with Harry Kane. Madrid had asked Tottenham about the Englishman, who ends his contract in 2024 and has just scored 30 goals in the last Premier, but his signing remains on 'stand by' until the future of the Frenchman is resolved.. There is no place for the two, neither on the field nor in a squad that next season will begin to assume the salary improvements of young people like Vinicius and Rodrygo, non-transferable.

Madrid will now await PSG's movements. At the Bernabéu they are aware that Al-Khelaifi would prefer to sell Mbappé to any club before them, but they trust (again) in the footballer's footsteps. New season of the soap opera.