This is just stupid money now. Kylian Mbappe has been offered a staggering €700M contract for A SINGLE SEASON’s worth of play by Saudi club Al-Hilal, while PSG have been offered a record-breaking €300M transfer fee despite the friction between the French superstar and his club.
Okay, these Saudi transfer fees and salaries are now at the point of being antithetical to sports and competition.
Despite having a single year left on his contract and a well-known desire to only play for Real Madrid, Kylian Mbappe has just been offered an incredible, world-shattering record contract of €700M/season by Saudi Super League club Al-Hilal and PSG an incredible, world-shattering record transfer fee of €300M. And, as I said, these transfer prices are now stupidly crazy.
In a similar vein to how I talked about the Celtics offering an NBA-record $304M salary to Jaylen Brown, giving a player over €700M for a single season’s worth of work is astronomically stupid. Again, I have nothing against free markets determine a player and sport’s worth, but did Kylian Mbappe solve cancer, end world hunger, stop all wars, or create a 1B+ valued corporation through his own hard work, sweat, blood, and tears?
That’s the only way in my mind to justify giving anyone on this planet €700M, let alone giving it to a guy who kicks a ball around for a living. Of course, I’m not saying Mbappe, and other athletes should be given peanuts for the hard work and their dedication to sporting excellence, but when you start to reach €700M as a year’s salary, then your reaching crazy land in my humble opinion.
Anyways, as you can tell now, Saudi Arabian club Al Hilal, one of the clubs run and governed by the Saudi Arabian crown itself, has offered world-shattering transfer fee and player salary for PSG’s Kylian Mbappe as the French forward has been completely ostracized by the French giants. And I really don’t know how to follow up such a statement.
Kylian Mbappe is obviously one of the two best players in the world (him and Erling Haaland are battling for the top spot) and more than deserving of his multi-millions in wages but giving someone who kicks a ball for a living €700M is utterly insane. And especially so when he’s only being offered A SINGLE YEAR under contract.
Yes, you read that right, Al Hilal only wants to sign Mbappe for a single year and then let him walk out of Saudi Arabia as a free agent with the entire footballing world able to sign him for whatever he demands.
And, before anyone starts calling the Saudis crazy for offering nearly €1B to a player who’s only going to spend a single season in the country, bringing in Mbappe for just a month would be the greatest move the Saudi Pro League has ever done.
Mbappe is neither old, slow, or a European-only superstar as the recent additions of Cristiano Ronaldo, Marcelo Brozovic, Ruben Neves, Roberto Firmino, Jordan Henderson, Karim Benzema, N’Golo Kante, Fabinho, etc. all fall into one or more of these categories.
Mbappe is at the top of his game, capable of scoring 50+ goals/season in any league he plays in, a perennial Ballon D’or candidate, one of the most popular and marketable global sporting superstars and has already won numerous Ligue 1 titles and the 2018 World Cup.
Hell, he is coming off a 2022 World Cup (which took place in the Middle East) where he scored a hattrick in the Finals and nearly dragged a disjointed French squad to the world’s first back-t0-back World Cup titles. since Pele and Brazil did it back in 1958 and 1962. If any player in the world deserved this kind of salary, it’s Kylian Mbappe.
Now, Mbappe’s deal is a little misleading as the base salary is only €200M/year, but the marketing, player image, shirt sales, T.V. rights, back payments, etc. take that offer up to the astronomical €700M. But I guaranteed you that fully €700M is going straight into Mbappe’s bank account if he decided to make the transfer…which is almost a 0% chance if reports are to be believed.
Thankfully, Mbappe seems to be dead set on joining Real Madrid (or some other European club if PSG refuse to sell to Madrid) and keeping his career going in Europe, which is fantastic for fans of competitive sports as the Saudi money is becoming a serious problem.
World governments shouldn’t be allowed to take €10B for their GDP and dish it out onto players employed by PRIVATE, NON-GOVERNMENT corporations and entities. And this is what happens when you have these world governments getting involved in private and public enterprises.
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