Kylian Mbappé leaves PSG: a Premier League manager has publicly called for his club to compete with Real Madrid to sign him

“I can’t say anything”said the Paris Saint Germain coach this Friday, Luis Enricowhen asked about his impending departure in June Kylian Mbappewho had announced his decision to the club’s managers the day before, causing a shock in world football.

“I will try to resolve this issue: until the parties involved express themselves, I will not comment on anything (…) Neither Kylian Mbappé nor anyone from the club has expressed themselves publicly. I am the coach, when the parties speak I will gladly give you my opinion “the Spaniard declared in a press conference at the PSG Campus in Poissy, just outside Paris.

But Luis Enrique, faithful to his spicy style, left a ready-made sentence that hides something behind: “The club and the team are above all individuals”.

And he completed: “To be where I am you have to have personality and experience, know that around the club there are always rumours, criticisms, praise… Anyone who doesn’t like it can’t be in the club”.

The football world woke up on Thursday to the news that the millions of dollars from Qatar will not be enough to keep Mbappé at PSG. The attacker has already been booked Nasser Al Khelaifipresident of the French capital club, who has decided to leave at the end of June due to the expiration of his contract.

“The terms of the exit have not yet been fully defined, but Mbappé will leave Paris in the summer; Kylian still has to fulfill his commitments to the club”said the journalist specializing in the transfer market, Fabrizio Romano.

Future in Spain or could there be the Premier League?

In this way the name of the Frenchman appears once again in the sights of Real Madrid. Indeed, all roads seem to lead to the White House. Already in February, before a hypothetical crossing in the Champions League, the PSG number 7 reopens the curtain on a job without an official outcome, but which lights up faces and brings smiles to the Valdebebas offices.

Seven years ago, Real Madrid set their sights on a young footballer born in the town of Bondy, located in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis, north-east of Paris, who shone at Monaco.

But there is a competitor willing to bid for the French star: the top series. It is the best championship in the world, the one that moves the most money and the one that attracts the biggest media figures in the sport. It also seems almost impossible to get in touch with Mbappé.

In a time of inflation and economic recession and with most of the big teams having an impeccable squad, the Frenchman’s arrival in England would be a utopia, barring the biggest complications.

This Friday, Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta himself expressed his interest and urged his club’s managers to join the conversation to get players of Mbappé’s caliber. Neither the Gunners, nor Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United, Chelsea and Manchester City have the space and/or money to incorporate the most expensive footballer in the world.

Arsenal, for example, already have a lot of wingers, such as Martinelli, Bukayo Saka and Leandro Trossard, and he would only be good as a “nine”, but Arsenal’s limited success, both in Europe and in England – has not never won a Champions League and 20 years without the Premier League complicate his arrival. Same case as Tottenham Hotspur, which lacks the curriculum of titles that would seduce Mbappé.

At Chelsea the problem is finances, as well as the state of the team. After over 1,000 million spent since summer 2022, the London club has turned off the tap for fear of financial fair play. Furthermore, the club could be subject to sanctions for Roman Abramovich’s deals with the signings of Samuel Eto’o, Willian and Eden Hazard.

Manchester City simply doesn’t need Mbappé, already having Haaland and a large group of strikers like world champion Julián Álvarez. Furthermore, the ‘Sky Blues’ have been accused by the Premier League of 115 financial irregularities, so reaching the ‘Turtle’ may go hand in hand with sanctions ranging from the loss of points to relegation.

In the case of Manchester United it is a powder keg with a decade without winning the Premier League and more than fifteen years without touching the Champions League. The threat of not qualifying for Europe’s top competition next season is a point against them and they have already made an investment for the future with their striker: Marcus Rashford, renewed, and youngsters Alejandro Garnacho and Rasmus Hojlund.

In this scenario, the only big league left is Liverpool, which is the one that has been most interested in Mbappé’s performances in recent seasons.

The ‘Reds’ have already rebuilt the squad, in the center of the field, with the insertion of Ryan Gravenberch and Alexis MacAllisterand they will have to play another one in June on the substitutes’ bench, because Jürgen Klopp has announced his departure.

At a club where only three players earn more than £10 million, Thiago Alcántara (12), Virgil Van Dijk (13) and Mohamed Salah (21), the owners, the FSG group, are not inclined to extravagant investments like those it would mean Mbappé’s signature.

For this operation to have any options, the key would be the departure of Salah’s flag with a sensational offer from Saudi Arabia, like the one made by Al-Ittihad in the last transfer market £150 million. With that figure on the table, and taking into account the Egyptian’s 32nd birthday this June, Liverpool could consider trying to sign Mbappé, although it would be a far cry from the signings Liverpool have made since Klopp has been here. . Without German, it might be easier to do.