Paris St Germain (PSG) allowed Kylian Mbappe to discuss personal terms with rich man Al Hilal, after a £ 259 million offer from the team in Saudi Arabia. Al Hilal offered a world record transfer price of 259 million pounds to PSG for young striker Mbappe as a way to buy back the French striker’s one-year contract. The Ligue 1 champions also allowed the 24-year-old player to negotiate with Al Hilal, after they seriously submitted a huge written offer.

Sources close to the French team said that further meetings on Mbappe’s transfer will take place, but it may take longer to complete, because Al Hilal Club wants to have some swap deals. player. After the news that Mbappe was eliminated from PSG’s pre-season tour to Japan and Korea, many clubs expressed interest in the 2022 World Cup top scorer. Big names Chelsea, Manchester United, Tottenham, Inter Milan and Barcelona have approached Mbappe in many ways to hope to have him for the new season.

Mbappe’s future at PSG has been in serious doubt since June, after he announced he would not extend his current contract until 2025. This means Mbappe will become a free agent next summer and has can negotiate a contract with another club as early as January next year. PSG feel Mbappe has tacitly agreed to a free transfer to Real Madrid next summer, with sources in Paris saying he will benefit from a €160 million kickback (which would have gone to PSG) if he ends up End his current contract and move to the Spanish capital in 2024.

However, PSG does not want to lose all the money invested in Mbappe when he becomes a free player. The PSG president gave the young French striker an ultimatum to continue extending his contract or leave immediately. The club’s first punishment was to not allow Mbappe to participate in the tour, and at the same time opened up the possibility of letting him languish on the bench in the new season.

Currently, Al Hilal’s interest could have the effect of creating leverage for Mbappe to leave, with a higher salary or larger contract fee from Real, or any club that wants him in January 2024. .

It is important to know that Al Hilal is one of the clubs in the Saudi Pro League spending the most this summer, as they seek to attract top European talent to the game. The club signed Ruben Neves from Wolves for 47 million pounds and recruited Kalidou Koulibaly from Chelsea for 33 million pounds.

Al Hilal have also signed Serbian international Sergej Milinkovic-Savic from Lazio for £34 million, while they are targeting Fulham striker Aleksandr Mitrovic. Notably, Al Hilal missed out on signing Lionel Messi, as the Argentina international chose to join MLS side Inter Miami.