Mbappé will impose the condition of playing the Paris 2024 Games if Real Madrid calls him
Wherever he goes, there is a priority for Kylian Mbappé that any club that wishes to hire him must know. The PSG knew it at the time of undertaking its last renewal. This is the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the goal of the Parisian footballer. The presence of the most referential player on the planet, since Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have emigrated to overseas football, is also for the French Football Federation and the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, in a strategic appointment for the State French and for a city that is once again hosting the Games for the third time in history, 100 years after the 1924 edition.
For now, Mbappé has communicated to PSG his decision not to extend the optional year of his contract, which ends just before the Games are held, from July 26 to August 11, 2024.. If he had continued in the Parisian team, his presence at the Olympic event was assured, since, according to sources close to the negotiation of his last renewal, it was included as a clause. Without admitting it, the footballer himself acknowledged, in a statement to TF1, that “we talked about it in the negotiations, because it is a unique opportunity, my dream since I was a child.”
Mbappé reached that negotiation after PSG himself had communicated to the French Football Federation its refusal to be selected for Tokyo 2020, finally postponed to 2021. France fell in the group stage. In Paris, failure cannot be repeated. Mbappé, who would opt for one of the three places for people over 23 years of age, adds: “Playing Games in front of your family and friends is something unique.”
TRANSFER BONUS
After his refusal to renew, Mbappé already knows that before the Games are held he must have closed his future, that is, he will belong to another club. The same would happen if his departure were rushed this summer, something, today, unlikely. The player has expressed his desire to meet next year in Paris. Once free, in addition, he would benefit from the transfer bonus that, in the case of having arrived at Madrid last season, would have been above 70 million euros.
In the same way that he did with PSG, participation in the Games will be a condition in negotiations with any other club and, specifically, with Madrid, if Florentino Pérez maintains his intention to make a great strategic signing. «There are many things that will have to be discussed, because that year there is also a Eurocup, but it is clear that it is my desire to take part in the Games, and much more when they are in Paris, my city. It is something that we will have to discuss with my club and with the Federation.
The Eurocup, in Germany, will begin on June 14 and end on July 14, 12 days before the Games. Competing in both can have consequences on your performance in the first course in a new destination, so defining it must be a key element in the negotiation. Barcelona allowed Neymar to play the Rio Games in 2016, but in exchange for an agreement with the Brazilian Confederation so that he would not play in the Centennial Copa América. He could not reach a similar agreement with the Spanish Federation regarding Pedri, two years ago, who played in the Euro and the Tokyo Games, and then suffered an ordeal of injuries that cut short his next year.
In parallel to the last renewal of Mbappé with PSG, there was a change in the French Federation, in which Philippe Diallo replaced Noël Le Graët after a sexual harassment scandal. “There is a superior national interest that must prevail. The whole world will be looking out for us. We have to line up the best team, with Kylian as captain. He wants to leave his legacy and win a gold medal,” Diallo told Le Monde. «You have to make everyone see the importance of being able to have the best during those two weeks of competition. Until the end of the year we have to address this issue, “adds Diallo, who has Macron as the main ally for the 'grandeur' to parade down the Seine, at the opening ceremony, with all its banners. In sport, none like Mbappé. Those who aspire to hire him should take this into account.