The “crazy” condition that Mbappe imposed on PSG and Real Madrid to accept the transfer
If Faiza Lamary achieves her goal in the complex negotiations that she has been holding this week with the managers of PSG , her case will be studied as a model of success in business schools. What Mbappé ‘s mother is discussing in Paris with Al-Khelaifi is not something as “simple” (if there is something simple with Mbappé) as convincing the French club to put a price on the transfer of her son. It is about also giving up part of that money so that the operation is not contrary to the interests of Kylian, so that he agrees to go to Real Madrid this summer. in Qatarthey are outraged. And they certainly have reasons.
150 MILLION UNTIL JUNE 2024
The situation is quite tense, how could it be otherwise. Faiza and Mbappé’s lawyers have begun the negotiation by making their position clear: the forward is not going to exercise the optional extension clause for a third season and is determined to complete the second season he has signed with PSG, thus collecting his 60 million net annual tab plus 90 of a loyalty bonus agreed in May of last year. With those 150 million in his pocket, his plan involves committing to Real Madrid as of January 1 and negotiating a transfer bonus that would be around 100-125 million (the latter is the amount they agreed a year ago) as a bonus. for arriving free at the Santiago Bernabéu.
MBAPPÉ HAS TO ACCEPT
At PSG they feel cheated. For days they have leaked that if they cannot convince their elusive star to renew, they will transfer him. But it is not so easy. For there to be a transfer, the three parties have to accept it, and that is where Mbappé sets his conditions to accept being transferred . If he gives up the 150 million that he has guaranteed by contract until June 1, 2024 and Real Madrid or any other club he goes to has to pay a high transfer fee, that club will also not face a transfer bonus for the player . And neither Kylian nor Lamary are about to lose such amounts of money. Logical. So if PSG wants to transfer him to lose sight of him and incidentally save his salary and the loyalty bonus, and also intends to receive an important transfer, they will have no choice but to give in to their claims. In Paris and Qatar they know that the last word in this arduous negotiation belongs to the player, no matter how many ultimatums they throw out.
LOWER THE TRANSFER FIGURE
One option is to considerably lower that transfer figure, to compensate Mbappé for his waiver of the loyalty bonus. Various media report that PSG would have thought to ask for 200 million , which is the figure that Madrid offered in its last offer at the end of August 2021, when they did not even receive a response from Paris and relations between the two clubs broke down. But with that amount, there can only be one solution: Mbappé will fulfill his contract and next year he will leave without leaving a euro in PSG’s coffers . At the same time, the player’s mother already knows that the conditions offered by Real Madrid are the same as those negotiated two years ago: between 25 and 30 million per year token, but the 125 million that Madrid was willing to pay him as a transfer bonus would only be collected when he arrived free, without the club having to pay for a significant transfer.
FAIZA LAMARY, THE BEST NEGOTIATOR
The solution to this devilish mess is not easy to foresee. On the one hand, a relentless negotiator like Faiza Lamary, a lawyer by training, with an extraordinary ability to always obtain the most advantageous conditions for her son, the best soccer player in the world, and with an economic voracity reminiscent of the abusive negotiations between Messi and his father with Bartomeu’s Barcelona . She is also aware that she has the best cards in this poker game and in no rush to play them. Opposite, the emir of Qatar, Al-Thani , uncomfortable because he feels cheated by a footballer who was given the keys to the club in last year’s renewal, granting him whims such as placing a sports director of his full confidence like Luis fieldsNot to mention that they signed him the best contract in the history of the sport and gave him all the power in the locker room.
But one thing seems clear: if there is someone capable of unlocking this situation and at the same time ensuring that Mbappé can leave PSG without losing money and that PSG can sell him without feeling cheated, it is Faiza Lamary, one of the best negotiators in the industry. of soccer. There is also another possibility: that this episode ends with a new renewal of Mbappé with PSG . It sounds crazy, certainly, and more seeing the feeling of disappointment and fed up with their captain that they transmit from the French club. But with Mbappé and his mother involved, it is convenient not to rule out any possibility, however extravagant it may seem.
Source: Marca
