Al-Hilal £259m Mbappe bid

[FFCBadger]

Is this the shot in the arm the 'super league' argument needed? I think this is about get get a whole lot more bonkers...

[Steeeeeeeeeed]

Is this the shot in the arm the 'super league' argument needed? I think this is about get get a whole lot more bonkers...

If he goes there that would be incredibly sad to see for the European Game.

[Bassey the warrior]

I heard it was £260m.

[Somerset Fulham]

EXCL: Al Hilal have submitted formal bid to Paris Saint-Germain in order to open talks for Kylian Mbappé. 🚨🔵🇸🇦

Understand it’s worth €300m — record fee.

No talks on player side.

⚪️ PSG remain convinced that Mbappé already agreed terms with Real Madrid with contract ready. pic.twitter.com/yeDu5AQr6E

— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) July 24, 2023

[Fulham Tup North]

You watch .. .they will loan him out to Newcastle for the season and keep them below the FFP rules...
 

[SerbianLad]

WTF I just read that it's apparently 300 million euros and that Mbappe would earn 700 million euros for a year!

[ElRay]

They'll pull out of the Mitrovic deal if this goes through. No way would they pay £100mil for Mitrovic & Malcom if Mbappe agrees to join. Mbappe signing would make Mitrovic insignificant news and would be worthless to them.

[F(f)CUK]

At some point a player should say "how much money do I really need?". I am sure that Mbappe earns enough through contracts, endorsements etc that he doesn't need this cash boost. Tom Brady would basically take minimum wage to help free up space for better talent around him. He earned his money through endorsements. I suspect that he is not poor.

A player at the top of his game should not be playing in a league that is essentially a last big pay day for those nearing retirement.

[SerbianLad]

At some point a player should say "how much money do I really need?". I am sure that Mbappe earns enough through contracts, endorsements etc that he doesn't need this cash boost. Tom Brady would basically take minimum wage to help free up space for better talent around him. He earned his money through endorsements. I suspect that he is not poor.

A player at the top of his game should not be playing in a league that is essentially a last big pay day for those nearing retirement.

Agreed. I doubt he'll accept. I get what some people are saying, how it's a one year contract so he could earn 700 million and then move to Real Madrid for free, but I doubt a player of Mbappe's quality would entertain that offer, no matter how much money he'll be offered.

[LC]

No way can they afford that and Mitrovic, it puts us in a bad position as we could end up having a player who doesn't want to be here and an unmotivated Mitrovic is not a good thing

[FFCBadger]

Apologies, yes I've just heard £259m!
Well they've got deep pockets and everyone has a price (plus a decent contract of course).

I think this could be a re-run of the PGA vs LIV golf battle. Eventually enough national FA's will do some sort of a deal. But this would be immesurably more complicated so I might be wrong...

Neymar was £198m in 2017, also bought by a Saudi team...

[bencher]

Apologies, yes I've just heard £259m!
Well they've got deep pockets and everyone has a price (plus a decent contract of course).

I think this could be a re-run of the PGA vs LIV golf battle. Eventually enough national FA's will do some sort of a deal. But this would be immesurably more complicated so I might be wrong...

Neymar was £198m in 2017, also bought by a Saudi team...

Qatar rather than Saudi

[Aaron]

It's crap like this that really makes me miss the Championship and, at times, puts me off football altogether.

[wback]

I really doubt Qatar will sell to Saudi, no matter how much. A fair bit of political tension between them. Question is whether Real Madrid, Liverpool, new Utd owners etc are prepared to float a number big enough. He couldn't go to Newcastle for similar reasons, has to go somewhere else first.

[BestOfBrede]

Shows what they really think of Mitro if they weren't prepared to go to our 52.5m price tag!

[Huxley]

WTF I just read that it's apparently 300 million euros and that Mbappe would earn 700 million euros for a year!

Just think how this kind of money could help starving people around the world and their neighbours Yemen.... Pervers that we are even talking about this kind of money to kick a ball around....

[SerbianLad]

WTF I just read that it's apparently 300 million euros and that Mbappe would earn 700 million euros for a year!

Just think how this kind of money could help starving people around the world and their neighbours Yemen.... Pervers that we are even talking about this kind of money to kick a ball around....

This summer is starting to make me lose my love for the sport...

[copthornemike]

WTF I just read that it's apparently 300 million euros and that Mbappe would earn 700 million euros for a year!

Just think how this kind of money could help starving people around the world and their neighbours Yemen.... Pervers that we are even talking about this kind of money to kick a ball around....

This summer is starting to make me lose my love for the sport...

I really get where you are coming from SL.
Within a two weeks we have been faced with realistic threats to losing our manager, goal scorer and Player of the Year.
I still have a sneaking suspicion that as a club we will emerge from the current mess stronger with the same manager, same POTY andd an improved squad by the end of August.
Strangely enough maybe we needed a crisis to strengthen and falling into an atmosphere of complacency. Always a dangerous position to be in a competitive EPL!

[SerbianLad]

WTF I just read that it's apparently 300 million euros and that Mbappe would earn 700 million euros for a year!

Just think how this kind of money could help starving people around the world and their neighbours Yemen.... Pervers that we are even talking about this kind of money to kick a ball around....

This summer is starting to make me lose my love for the sport...

I really get where you are coming from SL.
Within a two weeks we have been faced with realistic threats to losing our manager, goal scorer and Player of the Year.
I still have a sneaking suspicion that as a club we will emerge from the current mess stronger with the same manager, same POTY andd an improved squad by the end of August.
Strangely enough maybe we needed a crisis to strengthen and falling into an atmosphere of complacency. Always a dangerous position to be in a competitive EPL!

And it's not even only that. Sergej Milinković-Savić, Ruben Neves, two players in their prime moved to Saudi league. World class players like Benzema and Kante who both still had a lot to offer also went there. And now this Mbappe deal... And for what? Because they got offered enormous amount of money. Apart from 1-2 stars each team has, the rest of their squads are mostly League Two players at best. It seems that they can do whatever they want regardless of the FFO. What's happened to FFP.

Then there was the talk of Super League not so long ago. Things like that are disgusting.

Football has been pretty unfair for a long time and it favoured so called big clubs. But this is far beyond that imo.

700 million euros...

[MisfitKid]

Looks like the "MLS Retirement League" ain't look'n so bad now, huh?