LaLiga president: Mbappe 'destined' to become Real Madrid player in 2024
Tom Weber
- Updated: 25 Sept 2023 20:13 BST
- 3 min read
LaLiga president Javier Tebas is '70-80 per cent' sure that Kylian Mbappe will fulfil his 'destiny' and move to Spain next year.
The French megastar continues to be linked with a move to Real Madrid. Despite being briefly exiled by Paris Saint-Germain in the summer, Mbappe stayed put.
Though currently on an expiring contract after deciding against triggering his one-year extension, the French giants are working hard on tying their star forward down to a new deal to avoid losing him for free next term.
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Real Madrid, meanwhile, are just waiting to pounce. As things stand, they will be able to agree a pre-contract with the 24-year-old in January, but it is a gamble. If he were to put pen to paper on an extension, signing him next year would become much more difficult and expensive.
Nevertheless, LaLiga president Tebas is all but convinced that the Frenchman will make the move to his league next year.
'70-80%'
Movistar Plus+ recently got tennis legend Rafael Nadal to admit that he would like to become Real Madrid president and that Los Blancos signing Mbappe would be great and now they managed to tickle something similar out of Tebas.
Speaking to the Spanish broadcaster, the LaLiga boss revealed that he is very confident of Mbappe's arrival in Spain: "Convinced, convinced? No. But it is his destiny, for sure. I think that next year [the chances of it happening] will be more than 70 or 80 per cent."
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Though he did not mention Real Madrid specifically, Los Blancos are the only club that could afford the Frenchman. Tebas is a noted Real fan, but he also revealed that there is an "abysmal difference" between the way he sees football and the way Florentino Perez does.
"There is a very abysmal difference in what we think about European professional football. There is no possibility of agreement if we have to accept, on my part and that of the majority of the clubs in the Spanish league, that the big clubs are the ones that should determine the destiny, the future, the distribution of the money of the football industry."
