translated from Spanish: PSG confirms Real Madrid’s “insufficient” offer for Mbappé

Paris Saint-Germain sporting director Leonardo Araujo confirmed Real Madrid’s “insufficient” offer for Kylian Mbappé and lamented the white club’s “disrespectful, unacceptable and illegal behaviour” in trying to sign the striker, who he said “promised he would not leave free” from the club.” When we make us their offer (Real Madrid), I think their strategy is to have a ‘no’ from us and say: ‘We have tried everything, wait another year’. Real Madrid have been behaving like this for two years. His behavior is disrespectful, unacceptable and it is illegal to bid one year before the end of Kylian’s contract and seven days before the market closes. The offer is far from kylian’s value, it is even less than what we will have paid for him because we still owe monaco money. The proposal is insufficient,” Leonardo explained in statements to French media. In this regard, he remarked that “if Real Madrid has made an offer a week before the market closes, it is because the player wants to leave.” “If Kylian wants to talk and say he doesn’t want to leave, then he won’t leave because that’s our wish. Real Madrid have spoken to his family, otherwise they would not have acted like this,” he said. If a player wants to leave he will leave, but it will be on our terms. This applies as much to Kylian as to all the other players. Whether you leave or stay, it will be on our terms. We don’t close the door to anyone if they want to leave, but we don’t open it either,” he said, adding that Mbappé “promised” the Parisian club that he would “not go free”, as could happen next June. “That’s a fact,” he added. In addition, the Brazilian clarified that PSG’s “position” remains the same and that it involves “keeping Kylian and renewing his contract.” “We can’t be happy with this situation because this summer we created a dream and we won’t let anyone destroy it or position themselves above the club. Kylian is at the center of the project, but not above it,” he warned.

Original source in Spanish