{"id":613748,"date":"2022-06-17T02:31:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T06:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=613748"},"modified":"2022-06-17T02:31:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T06:31:52","slug":"kylian-mbappe-transfer-saga-real-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/17\/kylian-mbappe-transfer-saga-real-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Kylian Mbappe Transfer Saga Not Over: Surprise Development With Real Madrid Move Back on the Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">As reported by\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Fabrizio Romano<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, Real Madrid chief Florentino Perez has revived the Kylian Mbappe transfer saga: &#8220;Real Madrid will be always open to buy players who understand that no one is bigger than the club&#8221;. It&#8217;s clear that despite Perez being disappointed regarding the 11th-hour collapse of the Mbappe deal this summer &#8211; they remain interested in any possibility of signing the French superstar in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Kylian Mbappe Transfer Saga Not Over<\/span><\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Happy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NationalBestFriendsDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NationalBestFriendsDay<\/a> \ud83e\udd1d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AchrafHakimi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@AchrafHakimi<\/a> x <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KMbappe?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@KMbappe<\/a> \ud83d\udd34\ud83d\udd35<\/p>\n<p>@fofana22_ x <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atchouameni?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@atchouameni<\/a> \ud83d\udd34\u26aa\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x2QL4VSjSV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/x2QL4VSjSV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ligue 1 English (@Ligue1_ENG) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ligue1_ENG\/status\/1534607300119470088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Real Madrid Prepared to Play the Waiting Game for Mbappe<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/14\/aurelien-tchouameni-comments-real-madrid\/\" target=\"_self\">Real Madrid<\/a> have been chasing the Paris Saint-Germain star since last August. When asked about the collapse of the deal, Florentino P\u00e9rez: &#8220;It was not easy for Mbapp\u00e9 to receive calls from the president of France&#8221;. He continued: &#8220;This is why Kylian has changed&#8221;.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Real Madrid seemed convinced they had won the race for the 23-year-old. He had been widely tipped to sign for Los Blancos but performed an unexpected u-turn to <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/05\/21\/kylian-mbappe-staying-paris-saint-germain\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">sign a new contract at the Parc des Princes until 2025<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Perez had previously claimed the club had &#8220;already forgotten&#8221; about the collapse of the Mbappe deal. It now seems like time is a healer, and Perez is now refusing to close the door on the 23-year-old superstar.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The future of Kylian Mbappe<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Mbappe moving to the Bernabeu seemed a certainty. According to Perez, outside pressures forced him to stay in Paris.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The French international is coming off another incredible season where he surpassed 30 goals for the fourth consecutive season and chipped in with an impressive 14 assists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/14\/paris-saint-germain-interest-italian-striker\/\" target=\"_self\">Paris Saint-Germain<\/a> remain hungry for that maiden Champions League trophy, and keeping one of their star players is pivotal to any hopes of fulfilling that ambition.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The 2022\/23 season is arguably the most important of Mbappe&#8217;s career, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/04\/09\/world-cup-2022-teams-upset\/\" target=\"_self\">World Cup in Qatar<\/a> giving him the chance to show unequivocally he&#8217;s the best player on the planet. Back in Paris, they will surely need to win the Champions League in order to keep Donatello away from the Spanish giants.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported by\u00a0Fabrizio Romano, Real Madrid chief Florentino Perez has revived the Kylian Mbappe transfer saga: &#8220;Real Madrid will be always open to buy players who understand that no one is bigger than the club&#8221;. It&#8217;s clear that despite Perez being disappointed regarding the 11th-hour collapse of the Mbappe deal this summer &#8211; they remain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":613770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,378,1367,1366,7188,2132],"tags":[961],"class_list":["post-613748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transfers","category-champions-league","category-paris-saint-germain","category-real-madrid","category-rumours","category-world-cup","tag-kylian-mbappe"],"modified_by":"Joseph Howes, Site Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}