Paris St-Germain are prepared to sell Kylian Mbappe this summer rather than risk losing him for free in a year’s time, after he told the French club he will not renew his contract.<\/span><\/p>\n There was a deadline of 31 July for Mbappe, 24, to tell PSG if he was going to renew until 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n After months of talks, he has sent the club a letter saying he will not.<\/span><\/p>\n PSG’s record goalscorer would be free to leave for nothing at the end of next season and the move could be a negotiating tactic.<\/span><\/p>\n However, as the French champions try to readjust their team-building policy after years of buying star players with no obvious coherent strategy, PSG have resolved not to let Mbappe go for nothing.<\/span><\/p>\n It means that unless they get assurances about the 2018 World Cup winner’s future intentions, they will sell him in a move that would put Europe’s leading clubs on alert.<\/span><\/p>\n Real Madrid are long time admirers of the Frenchman and he rejected a move to the Bernabeu to stay at PSG last year.<\/span><\/p>\n The exit of Karim Benzema to Saudi Arabia means Real need a striker, although it had been thought <\/span>Tottenham’s Harry Kane was at the top of their list.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Mbappe, who joined PSG in 2017 initially on loan from Monaco <\/span>before a 180m euros move,<\/span><\/a> has scored 212 goals in 260 games.<\/span><\/p>\n He has 38 goals in 68 games for France, including a hat-trick in last year’s final in Qatar, as France lost to Argentina on penalties.<\/span><\/p>\n Mbappe finished as Ligue 1’s top scorer in each of the last five seasons and has won five league titles in his six seasons at PSG.<\/span><\/p>\n PSG ended 2022-23 with just the Ligue 1 title after once again failing to win the Champions League, losing to Bayern Munich in the last-16.<\/span><\/p>\n Mbappe would be the second high-profile forward to leave the Parc des Princes this summer, after Argentina forward Lionel Messi left at the end of his two-year contract <\/span>to join Major League Soccer’s Inter Miami<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n Neymar, the third member of PSG’s superstar frontline last season, has been linked with a <\/span>big-money move to Saudi Arabia<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n
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