PSG: Mbappé signed biggest contract in history – Dwarfs Messi’s Barça deal

New details revealed 

Kylian Mbappé reportedly signed the biggest contract in the history of sports last May. If the 23-year-old forward remains loyal to PSG until June 30, 2025, he will earn €636 million gross, or €282m net, without bonuses, according to Le Parisien, who are usually well informed when it comes to matters concerning the French top club. The newspaper also confirms information from L’Équipe, that Mbappé is said to have extended his contract only until 2024 with an option for a further season.

According to the report, the striker, who finished sixth in this year’s Ballon D’Or ranking, earns €72m gross per year, or €6m per month, which equates to €2.7m after taxes. After signing his new PSG contract, the parties involved are also said to have agreed on a bonus payment of €180m, which will be paid in three instalments of €60m per year, regardless of whether the superstar leaves the capital club earlier. And that is not all: for each year Mbappé plays for PSG, he will also receive a loyalty bonus, which earned him €70m in September 2022, while €80m will be due in 2023 and even €90m in 2024.

These incredible figures show how far the French giants were willing to go just to keep Mbappé from moving to Real Madrid on a free transfer. The reported terms make consistent media reports that Mbappé wants to leave PSG as soon as possible all the more curious. He recently denied these rumours. “I was as shocked by this news as everyone else,” Mbappé said. “People may think I’m involved, I’m not at all. I just wanted to say that it’s completely false, I’m very happy here.”

PSG star: Mbappé’s deal dwarfs Messi’s massive Barça contract

If Mbappé leaves in the summer of 2024, for instance, and he does not use the rumoured option for another season, PSG would have paid him €474m for two years and he could still move on a free transfer and look forward to the next signing-on fee. Even Lionel Messi’s massive contract with Barcelona, which, according to El Mundo, is said to have earned him around €138m per year from 2017 to 2021, was far from the dimensions that the Qatari owners of PSG currently pay for France international Mbappé’s services.

“When you play for PSG, you know what to expect,” Mbappé recently said. “The good, the bad… everyone who comes here knows that and we warn them. But we are only focused on winning games and titles.” As usual, things worked out well in the first half of the season so far. In Ligue 1, the Parisians are currently sitting at the top the table before it becomes more interesting after the winter break, when the knockout stages in the Champions League begin, where the greatest success since the Qatari takeover in 2011 was reaching the final in 2020, which the club lost 1-0 to Bayern Munich. Fittingly, due to a goal scored by PSG youth product Kingsley Coman.

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