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LONDON. — Paris Saint-Germain will reportedly demand £188 million for Kylian Mbappe after rejecting Real Madrid’s opening bid of £137m.
The French club’s sporting director Leonardo was left furious by the Spanish club’s approach, with the offer lower than what they paid Monaco when Mbappe was 18.
The front page of AS reports the claims of French newspaper Le Parisien that PSG will demand at least €220m (£188m), although they could be prepared to accept an offer of £170m, as reported by L’Equipe.
Mbappe is out of contract at the end of the season and PSG risk losing the 22-year-old on a free transfer if they cannot tie him down to a new deal. Leonardo accused Real of an illegal approach and a lack of respect but appeared to leave the door open for a deal to be struck.
In a interview, Leonardo said: “PSG’s position has always been to keep Kylian. That’s been the aim for the last two years and it remains unchanged.
“We made him a big offer two months ago — at the level of the best players — and another even more recently which was even higher, but this is a strategy of Real Madrid, to have the name of one of our players.
“For the last two years the behaviour of Madrid has been incorrect, illegal, getting in contact with his representative — Mailonline.
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Peter Tanyanyiwa