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The ice age didn’t last that long.
From Kylian Mbappe to Real Madrid… this has been going on for at least a decade.
athletic Didn’t even exist when the pair started falling in love with each other. Twitter was still fun (and it was called Twitter), Taylor Swift hadn’t heard of American football, and the closest thing we got to a global pandemic was watching Contagion.
It has been an extremely long saga, in fact it is the worst kind of transfer saga, with endless shams, constant lies and spin and thousands and thousands of stories claiming that it is finally happening.
Well now, once and for all, it definitely is. Mbappé will leave PSG and you have to assume that next season, he will play at the Bernabeu (assuming no other club has the opportunity to overtake him and he ends up at Osasuna) and the football world will focus on Maybe talking about other things, like, you know, football matches.
The best player in the world will not rot in PSG’s reserves, believe it or not. He will not even be placed on gardening leave. Instead, he will play for the club he always wanted to play for and Real Madrid will sign the player he wanted to play with forever. imagine that.
If you think we have it bad here, try living in Spain where the coverage is similar to what we get in the UK when a member of the royal family dies.
In recent months, things have deteriorated since Mbappe did not take up the option of extending his contract until 2025. On TV and radio, whether Real Madrid is winning or losing matches, whether Jude Bellingham is scoring goals or not, whether Carlo Ancelotti is staying or leaving as manager, Mbappé news is at the top.
Don’t worry, the saga is almost over (Frank Fyfe/AFP via Getty Images)
Ancelotti will face questions about Mbappe in press conferences on a regular basis, as you would expect. But Real Madrid players, Javier Tebas (President of La Liga), even Xavi and Joan Laporta at Barcelona, they have all been questioned for their Mbappé opinions. Honestly, who cares? Apart from TV producers who need to satisfy the insatiable need for 24/7 football coverage.
Why would anyone want to know what Laporta thinks about another club signing another player? Just ask Nick Knowles what he thinks about Britain going into recession again when you’re in recession. It’s completely pointless to the point of saturation, a stage we reached several years ago with this on/off transfer.
Mbappe has dominated the front pages in Spain for centuries, constantly focusing on ‘the decision’.
A Marca headline in April 2020 screamed, “Mbappé would like to play for Real Madrid.” Presumably “in 2024” was in small print.
In September of that year “Mbappé made the move”, implying that he was moving to Madrid. Probably on leave right now.
“Summer Games” was last year. Perhaps he meant the Ashes.
There has even been a saga within a saga, with Madrid feeling betrayed by Mbappe when he decided to sign his last extension with PSG. Madrid fans said they would not forgive Mbappé for choosing to stay with his current employers. get older.
Journalists were also involved in this. Mbappé’s decision to stay in Paris was called “the biggest mistake of his career”; Even if he wins the Champions League and another World Cup, it won’t be enough. Oh, and the fact that he wanted to be in the fifth-best league in the world shows that “he holds himself in very low regard”.
Mbappe is committing his future to PSG for at least a few more years in 2022 (Frank Fyfe/AFP via Getty Images)
However, it feels exactly like Real Madrid; Sheer outrage at any player in the world daring to snub him. It’s a very particular kind of attitude that has fueled and exacerbated the dullest soap opera storyline since Ian Beale’s weight loss struggle on Eastenders.
There was never a moment when it didn’t feel like Mbappé was headed to Real Madrid in the near future. That’s always the case, if not more – even when he tweeted a “lie” about the report that he wanted to join Real last summer. “I have already said that I will stay at PSG where I am very happy,” he said, miming a David Brent long nose.
To be honest, we Tell It’s a done deal, but there’s no doubt that we must be ready for the next chapter. Now that Mbappe has confirmed that he is leaving PSG, which club will he join? Within minutes of today’s news breaking, an odds comparison website sent out an email (so hurriedly that the subject of the email was mistakenly read as “Kylian Mbappe is set to leave Real in the summer of 2024”. ) which stated that there was an “83.3 percent implied probability” that Mbappe left for Madrid, but there was also a 3.8 percent chance that he could go to Barcelona, a move that drew comparisons to an octopus running around a train station. Will involve pulling more levers.
But for now, it looks like it’s finally over. And when we finally see Mbappé don that famous white kit, we will all be relieved. Unless it’s Leeds United taking on PSG’s Bosman in 2034.
(Top photo: Julian De Rosa/AFP via Getty Images)
