The huge salary that Kylian Mbappé is set to earn in Madrid is only one part of the vast financial package offered to the Frenchman.
French superstar Kylian Mbappé will soon leave Paris Saint-Germain as the club’s all-time record scorer, with 256 goals scored across an exhilarating 308 appearances.
He will join Real Madrid, the team that has coveted him, and that he has coveted in return, since he was a teenage prospect. For years PSG’s vast wealth and rotating cast of global stars had managed to keep Mbappé in the French capital but he is finally set to leave.
Real Madrid, reigning Spanish and European champions, regularly attract the world’s best players but had to pull out all the stops to bring in Mbappé. The 25-year-old is expected to become the team’s highest-paid player with an annual salary of €15 million. He is also set to receive a huge signing bonus, widely reported as €150m spread across the duration of his contract.
What is a signing bonus in soccer?
Elite soccer players are among the most highly-paid athletes in the world and those top-end contracts are often supplemented with various extra bonuses to bump up the player’s total earnings. In the case of Kylian Mbappé, he is expected to received a vast ‘signing bonus’ in addition to his salary.
Signing bonuses were traditionally just a up-front payment for players joining a new club, a little sweetener to add to their regular earnings. However in the case of Mbappé, his vast €150m signing on fee will be paid in instalments across the course of his contract.
Mbappé's signing on fee is substantially more than the standard. His is essentially a large chunk of the transfer fee that Real Madrid would have had to pay to Paris Saint-Germain, had Mbappé not allowed his contract at the French club to run down.
As the 25-year-old’s contract expires this summer he is able to join Madrid without a transfer fee being paid, taking advantage of his free agency. It’s a fairly unusual situation in soccer but one that Real Madrid have taken advantage of a number of times in recent years. Before Mbappé, David Alaba and Antonio Rudiger both arrived on free transfers after their contracts expired at Bayern Munich and Chelsea, respectively.
pomboy11
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Signing of the decade..
pomboy11
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Signing of the decade..
TheOddOne
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Salah of Liverpool is left with 1 year of contract to Liverpool. if he runs down his contract, next year; Saudi club would have to pay him a bonus of €150M to sign him up. instead of paying Liverpool transfer fee which probably cost same or higher
TheOddOne
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Nothing is free. it is whether you pay the club or you pay the player. to me, its all the same.
tiacelmot
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Free but you are talking about millions, please use another language
DetermineDan
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The Mbappé transfer to Real Madrid is like handing them a golden ticket to the footballing chocolate factory while leaving other LaLiga teams scrambling for crumbs. Barcelona might need to hire a magician because pulling a rabbit out of the hat is the only way they'll keep up with this Real Madrid magic show!
Sukbsuyz
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Barca in pain of what? rubbish. we have seen the like of Hazard and co, and how it ended
CHICKIESMP
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it's the money others take off players for being hooked to them. now players want that money for themselves and to help ease transfers. teams took the money and agents too then the players had to take pay cuts while doing all the work and owning the talent.
Yooailruyz
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A little sweetener? 😳😳
emondorock
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They should of sold him 2 years ago and got some of that money back?
lekadlnpru
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PSG should cry more, for allowing Mbape to go free....what a careless management
Kapikrsyz
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welcome to Hala Madrid
Simpler02
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Barca meanwhile in pain