Kylian Mbappé can negotiate with Real Madrid: will he finally move to Los Blancos?

Here we go again: Kylian Mbappé is once again free to negotiate with Real Madrid. Will he move to Spain this summer?

January, 2022: Kylian Mbappé, who has just 6 months left on his current PSG deal, can now negotiate with any team he wants. After long and drawn-out months of negotiations, Qatar and PSG have managed to turn around a situation that seemed impossible, agreeing a renewal for two seasons, with an optional third, allowing the Parisians to keep one of the best players in the world in their ranks.

January 2024: Kylian Mbappé, who has just 6 months left on his current PSG deal, can now negotiate with any team he wants. The situation is giving everyone an incredible sense of déjà vu. Constant threats of departure have peppered his time at the club, and PSG even ‘exiled’ him over summer for his refusal to renew; the player is now once again into the last months of his remaining contract.

Will Mbappé sign a new deal with PSG?

The two scenarios are identical, albeit with certain nuances; since May 2022, a lot has changed in Paris: Messi and Neymar have both left, the club has shifted its policy towards a younger team with less star names, and the Champions League still eludes Paris Saint-Germain. In the meantime, Mbappé has decided to take a step forward, becoming the club’s all-time leading scorer, but it has not been enough to bring the Ligue 1 leaders closer to winning the elite competition on the continent.

Since 2022 he has played in another World Cup and a final for the history books against Messi, against whom he scored a hat-trick. There have also been many more doubts about his future, all of which have further fuelled the soap opera which will, one way or another, come to an end in June.

If Mbappé renews with PSG, which is by no means ruled out, he will do so on a long-term contract. If, in the end, he decides to leave Paris, the French capital outfit will enter a new era, abandoning the 2011 project initiated by Qatar, designed to bring together the world’s best players at PSG.

Mbappé has remained silent on his future

Since August, when he rejoined in the first team after a hellish summer, (sparked by the letter he sent on June 12 in which he informed PSG that he would not renew, as well as being left out of the tour of Japan and the club saying that he would be forced to leave if he did not renew) rumours about his renewal have slowed down.

The player has avoided speaking in public: he is silent when on national duty with France and PSG do not want his words to affect his performances on the pitch.

PSG want to tie Mbappé to a new deal

Both Qatar and PSG are going to address Mbappé's situation in the coming weeks. Aware that the Champions League can play a decisive, but not defining, role in his renewal, those in charge of the club are calm. A contract will not be rushed if it does happen, and the player himself has said that he wants to focus on football.

It feels like we’ve gone back in time as we cross into the new year, with PSG looking to tie down their star and the player with a big decision, either to stay where he is or leap forward into the unknown, at his fingertips.