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Real Madrid has made a 160m euros (£137m) bid for Mbappe

Mbappe's contract expires in June 2022.

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Real Madrid has made a 160m euros (£137m) bid to sign Paris St-Germain forward Kylian Mbappe.

The French World Cup winner joined PSG in 2017 in a transfer worth £165.7m and his contract expires in June 2022.

PSG sporting director Leonardo said the club would “not hold Mbappe back” but considered Real Madrid’s bid “not sufficient”.

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“We consider the offer as being very far from what Kylian is worth today,” he told French radio station RMC Sport.
Mbappe has played 174 games for PSG and scored 133 goals with three Ligue 1 titles and three French Cups.
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If a player wants to leave it must be under our terms. This applies not just to Kylian but to all players,” Leonardo said.

“If he wants to go, we are not going to hold him back, but it is on our terms.”

Real Madrid feels confident about spending on highly-rated players this summer.

Although the club lost 300m euros in revenue due to Covid-19, it has successfully signed former Bayern defender David Alaba on a free transfer this summer.

Real however allowed Sergio Ramos to leave on a free transfer to PSG, but sold Raphael Varane to Manchester United for £34m while Martin Odegaard left for Arsenal for around £30m.

Leonardo revealed that PSG had made “two big offers” to keep Mbappe at the club and sees the Frenchman as “the centre of the project” at the club.

“Kylian feels like leaving, this seems clear to me – our goal is to extend and keep him,” Leonardo added.

“With him, we talked a lot, he always told us the same things. He always promised he wouldn’t leave the club free.

“It [Real’s bid] is less than we paid for him. But it’s the way Real Madrid does it that we don’t like.”

It has not been made known how the fee would be structured.

PSG signed Argentina forward Lionel Messi earlier this month after he left Barcelona.

If Real’s bid is successful, it could trigger more deals before the transfer deadline on Tuesday, 31 August.

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