Updated:05/22/2022 13:47h
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The suspense film in which the sporting future of Kylian Mbappé It ended. And it has already taken the lead in the ranking of the most expensive football transactions. Although the player was released on June 30 and, therefore, hiring him did not require paying a transfer to another club, the price of the operation far exceeds that of previous signings: 300 million euros in the player’s own pocket (among other dizzying income) only for signing bonus. Straight to the ‘top one’.
The French international secures a super-millionaire pinch for a concept that has become increasingly fashionable in European football in recent years: the transfer bonus.
PSG It is one of the clubs that has resorted the most in recent seasons to the money offered by a team to a player who becomes a free agent (six months before the end of his contract) to try to convince him to sign for his entity.
A totally legal mechanism that allowed him to fish pieces like Rabiot, Wijnaldum or Sergio Ramos, who he watered with 20 million. And especially Messi, to whom he paid 40 million euros for the new concept, an amount that then seemed exorbitant. In the case of Mbappé, the Parisian team has resorted to this formula so that the striker remains in his locker room and does not agree to sign for Real Madrid, an entity that has also opted for these bonuses as a way to reinforce its squad in the face of the difficulty that It means competing in the transfer market with the checkbook of club-states such as PSG itself or Manchester City.
Florentino Pérez convinced a year ago to Alaba with 20 million euros and Rudiger He will also receive a slightly higher figure this summer for landing at the Bernabéu. The fight between the Spanish and the French to tie down Mbappé, however, was apparently very unequal. While the whites offered him an amount that was no less, close to 180 million, Nasser Al-Khelaifi He got off the hook, according to information from the French media, with an offer of 300 million as a signing bonus. Something never seen.
One piece of information shows the outrageousness of raising that figure: the signing bonus that Mbappé will pocket by continuing at the Parisian club, which also tempted him with a hundred million chips per season, exceeds the 222 million that Barcelona received for Neymar, the most expensive transfer in the history of football.
The signing bonus is, except in a battle as particular and special as the one waged by Mbappe, where the pride of the Parisian leaders made them draw checkbooks without any hesitation, doubly attractive. For the clubs, because they can sign a player for a lower price than they would have to pay if they had to negotiate with another team and avoid strengthening the treasury of direct rivals in the fight for titles. But the great benefit is for the footballers, although they risk reaching the end of their contract without a team (unless an injury makes them pay), since they receive a multimillion-dollar injection simply for negotiating directly with their destination club, without sharing benefits.
Last summer, the striker wanted to leave PSG to sign for Real Madrid, but the Parisian club rejected the €200 million offer. A money that would not have been for the player. And now he does keep it and well multiplied. Neymar is no longer the most expensive signing in football history. He has been cheap.
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