Paris Saint-Germain resume negotiations to keep Mbappe, according to L’Equipe

Kylian Mbappe has a proposal from Paris Saint-Germain to join Neymar and Messi as the club’s highest paid players.

Paris Saint-Germain (Paris Saint-Germain) “recently” resumed contacts with French striker Kylian Mbappe to renew his contract, despite “the lack of significant progress”, the newspaper revealed on Tuesday. the team.

The young striker, who will turn 23 in a few days, will play Real Madrid in the round of 16 of the Champions League, which has fueled speculation about his future.

And the newspaper indicates that the player has the same proposal that Paris Saint-Germain made to him last August, when they offered him to be the highest paid from a team that also includes personalities such as Neymar and Lionel Messi.

L’Equipe remembers that the player does not give signals about his future, so you have to trust his recent statements on this topic, which date back to last October, when he assured this newspaper that in the summer he believed that his French “adventure” was over and that the door to his exit would be Real Madrid.

“After two months, nothing suggests that his situation has developed,” the newspaper notes, which considers that “the trend today is more towards the exit,” although the player made it clear that he had not decided his future and that he did not intend to do so at the present time.

With the contract expiring on June 30, Mbappe can negotiate with other clubs from January 1, but L’Equipe believes that the February-March double duel against the “Meringue” may delay potential contacts with the entity run by Florentino Perez.

The striker pledged absolute loyalty to PSG until the end of his contract and his extraordinary performances in recent weeks show that.

The newspaper believes that this Champions League match gives the French club’s Qatari owners an additional period to try to persuade the player to remain under their discipline.