PSG considering selling Kylian Mbappé

Kylian Mbappé will not renew his contract with PSG. The information, reported by L’Équipe on Monday, has come as a shock to the French club, who received a letter this afternoon from the forward stating that he had no intention of exercising the one-year extension clause in his contract, which he was due to activate before 31 July. The pressure is now on the club to consider selling him in the coming weeks.

The Frenchman was disappointed with the promises made to him by Nasser Al Khelaïfi back in May 2022, which have not been kept. The scenario, as L’Équipe report, is radically different from that of August 2021. Qatar are considering selling their star player in order to avoid a similar scenario to the one they experienced last year.

PSG assure L’Équipe that they do not want Mbappé to leave for free, which is why his departure is being discussed in Doha. Mbappé, who renewed until 2024 and not three years as first announced by the club, has a clause in his unilateral contract for a one-year extension that he had to activate before 31 July, something that now appears to be very difficult after the letter sent today.

Mbappé could be set to leave PSG

Mbappé was under no obligation to notify his decision not to renew so soon and the strategy of the recently crowned Ligue 1 champions was aimed at building a competitive team to help the former Monaco player. The France international, who in his last few appearances had reiterated that he would remain in Paris next season, is not willing to stay beyond 2024 in the French capital. If PSG don’t sell Mbappé this summer, he will become a free agent next summer and would therefore be able to leave on a free transfer.