Sources from Marca newspaper said that Real Madrid’s leadership is facing the ultimate challenge in the deal to recruit striker Kylian Mbappe. Accordingly, the French superstar has just sent the Bernabeu 3 requests related to salary, bonuses and bribery fees, shocking everyone.
First, Mbappe asks for a salary of 50 million euros per season. Actually, considering the current conditions of the “Golden Boy” of French football, this request is not entirely excessive. Remember PSG is paying Mbappe 60 million euros per season.
The problem is that Real Madrid’s financial situation since the Covid-19 pandemic is no longer as strong as before. With the above proposal, Mbappe will receive a salary more than double the highest paid player in the Real team, which is midfielder Toni Kroos (24.4 million euros/season). Meanwhile, the duo Jude Bellingham and Vinicius Junior are both enjoying a salary of 21 million euros/season. That means the remuneration of both Real Madrid’s two brightest stars together is not as good as Mbappe alone.
Mbappe’s first claim risks pushing Real Madrid into an unstable situation. It’s hard to expect players like Bellingham or Vinicius to earn less than half the salary of Mbappe. Internal rifts may arise from there. In addition, Real’s future deals will also be heavily affected because at that time, the goals will require extremely high levels of regulation.
But that’s just the beginning of Kylian Mbappe’s three really difficult demands. The second request, Real must pay Kylian Mbappe, his mother and representative Fayza Lamari, a bribe of up to 125 million euros. Mbappe argued that this number is only half the transfer fee Real would have to pay if he were not a free player. Mbappe estimates himself to be worth over 250 million euros.
The third request from Kylian Mbappe is still a financial term, not a professional story. That is, Mbappe wants to own a very large percentage of the profits from this player’s image copyright. Initial sources said that Real wanted to retain all 100% of the image copyright profits, but later agreed to return 40 to 60% to Mbappe. However, the above numbers still do not convince the French star.
Still according to Marca, president Florentino Perez seemed especially angry with three financial requests from Kylian Mbappe. The head of the Bernabeu stadium increasingly sees Mbappe as a “money-extracting machine”, and is really annoyed with these unreasonable demands. No one is sure whether Real will accept the 3 requests from the 2018 World Cup champion or not. Just know that Real Madrid is really considering and completely leaving open the possibility of “turning around”.