It was widely reported on Deadline Day that Kylian Mbappé's had reached an agreement on a six-year contract with Madrid that will see the PSG superstar earn a mouth-watering €50 million-a-year in the Spanish capital.
And JoanGaspart, who was president of Barcelona from 2000 to 2003, says that he has knowledge that Kylian Mbappé's has already signed for Madrid.
I'll give you the exclusive: Kylian Mbappé has already signed his contract with Real Madrid, JoanGaspart said, I'm certain of it. I know [Real Madrid president] Florentino Perez. I'm certain of it.
Kylian Mbappé's was involved in the biggest transfer saga of last summer as he attempted to push through a move to Madrid.
In the end the transfer didn’t go through but Kylian Mbappé's was always expected to still move to Madrid at the end of the season, when his PSG contract runs out.
He has repeatedly rejected all of PSG’s offers for him to renew.
The consensus now is that Kylian Mbappé's contract will be announced after Real Madrid play PSG will play in the Champions League this month.
Kylian Mbappé's contract at Real Madrid is mad.
€50m-a-year. €4.2m-a-month €961,500-a-week. €137,360-a-day. €5,723-an-hour. €95.40-a-minute. €1.58-a-second.
Kylian Mbappé signed for PSG from Monaco in a €180m deal in 2017, joining the same summer as Neymar, who transferred for a world record €222m.
He has won three Ligue 1 titles during his time at the club, as well as the World Cup for the France national team.
Kylian Mbappé is widely expected to leave PSG for Madrid on a free transfer when his contract expires at the end of the season.
The World Cup winner, who has 10 goals and nine assists in Ligue 1 this term, would boost Madrid in attack, but Carlo Ancelotti is not exactly short of firepower – his side's 47 goals the most in Spain and eighth-most in Europe's top five leagues.
And in striker Karim Benzema and winger Vinicius Junior, arguably Madrid's best two players occupy the positions Kylian Mbappé likes to operate in.
Benzema is 34 but has never been better, scoring 17 and assisting seven, with only Mohamed Salah (25) topping his 24 goal involvements in Europe's top-five leagues. The ever-improving Vinicius has 12 goals and five assists.
Asked by Stats Perform about Kylian Mbappé potential transfer, Woodgate turned his focus instead to the middle of the pitch, where 32-year-old Toni Kroos (1,261) and 36-year-old Luka Modrić (1,196) rank second and third for minutes played.
[Mbappé] will be the biggest signing of the summer, if it goes through, said Woodgate, who played for Madrid between 2004 and 2007. On a free transfer as well, it's incredible.
He is a Galactico signing, one of the best players in the world, he'll flourish in Madrid, he'll be even bigger than he is in Paris Saint-Germain.
But what concerns me in Madrid is with the likes of Luka Modrić, Toni Kroos and Casemiro. That three in midfield are all getting to that stage where they're 35, 34 and then Casemiro. They need to start replacing them.
Okay, they've got [Federico] Valverde, whatever, but that's the main area they need to start recruiting at.
That three has been around for years and years and years. It's an incredible three in midfield, so it'll be interesting how they replace them three moving forward.
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