Bids, bluffs and opt-in clauses: Mbappe and PSG set for another summer of high-stakes poker

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Bids, bluffs and opt-in clauses: Mbappe and PSG set for another summer of high-stakes poker
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For the third straight summer, Kylian Mbappe's relationship with PSG is teetering. Will this be the time that the scales finally tip? Football’s highest-stakes poker player holds the cards, and may be going all-in once again.

inside the club’s Parc des Princes stadium and received a rapturous ovation from the local supporters.shirt that bore Mbappe’s name on the back with the number 2025 printed below.A statement on the club’s website read: “Paris Saint-Germain is delighted to announce that Kylian Mbappe has signed a three-year contract extension with the club. The France international striker has put pen to paper on a new deal with the Parisians until 30 June 2025.

French newspaper L’Equipe reported Mbappe has sent a letter to PSG, informing them he does not intend to trigger the option detailed above. The L’Equipe report is accurate, For PSG and Mbappe, this is the third summer in a row where the relationship between the player and the club has teetered on the brink., who made an opening bid worth €160million to sign him during the final week of the summer transfer window. The offer was rejected, partially because PSG still owed Monaco €36m for the final payment of the €180m transfer that took the player to Paris four years earlier.

international rejecting several contract offers, PSG still believed he could be persuaded to extend his time with them.Madrid sources claimed the club made two further offers that summer but PSG did not respond to the latter two, with the French club arguing the offers were never formalised and therefore they were of the view they had nothing to which they should respond.

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