Kylian Mbappe to Real Madrid transfer is waiting for the conclusion of the current European football season if the latest reports are to be believed.
ESPN reported that there is now an agreement on both sides for the player's move to Bernabeu, a story that has been going around since last season.
"Kylian Mbappé has decided to join Real Madrid once his contract with Paris Saint-Germain expires this summer," the sports publication cited local French paper Le Parisien.
The report also clarified that it is not yet 100 percent definite that he will leave PSG, whom he has yet to inform about his probable departure.
"Given Mbappé's previous U-turn over a move to the Bernabéu in 2022, there is always the possibility that he could change his mind until the deal is actually signed by both parties. However, his move to Madrid now finally looks set to come to fruition this summer."
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Real Madrid getting the best football players in the world is nothing new. It is a destination for those who want to take it to the next level.
Real Madrid negotiating with Mbappe's camp is apocryphal, but if one is to trace where the two sides first engaged, they will reach as far back as 2014 when he was only 14.
Real Madrid had their eyes on Mbappe in 2009
Football writer Julien Laurens said that the club spotted him when he was just 11 years old and playing for France's U-12s."
However, it was through his father that Los Blancos expressed their interest in the wunderkind three years later.
In an article he wrote in The Player's Tribune, Mbappe shared about his first visit to the Real Madrid facility in 2010.
"My father received a call from someone at Real Madrid, inviting me to come to Spain for a training session over the holiday break," he wrote.
"It was a shock because they actually told my father, 'Zidane would like to see your son.' At the time, Zizou was the sporting director. Of course, I was over the moon. I was desperate to go."
More than a decade later, this first contact is getting closer to a done deal.
Real Madrid made two bids to sign the World Cup winner, who is yet to win a Champions League.
PSG and Real Madrid have yet to comment on the latest report from ESPN.
Mbappe trying to break it easy to PSG
It is not like the reports from ESPN and Le Parisien are without basis. The developments for the weekend revelations might provide a clue to where the relationship between PSG and Mbappe is going.
Earlier this month, the 25-year-old forward "waived loyalty bonus payments of up to €100 million ($109 million) to protect PSG if he left for nothing."
There is a possibility that PSG will lose him for nothing since he will become a free agent by the summer season.
Mbappe, according to analysts, is making it for PSG if ever he leaves. They can use the waived bonus to buy quality players in his place.
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