Former Paris Saint-Germain board of director Luis Ferrer said that convincing Kylian Mbappe to join the club from AS Monaco in 2017 was not an easy task. The striker, as he mentioned a few times previously, was a fan of Real Madrid and continues to hold the Galacticos in high regard. He came very close to joining the club in the summer of 2021, but that move was somehow kept out by PSG.
According to Ferrer, they found Real Madrid posters and other memorabilia in Mbappe’s washroom at AS Monaco, which came as a massive surprise as to how much the player liked the club.
They felt it could get very difficult to enter negotiations with the player, but they somehow managed to get his signature.
“In this strategy that we outlined, there was a moment when we visited him at his home in the neighborhood of [former PSG sporting director] Bondy Antero Henrique and I.
It was the end of May, almost with the season over. And suddenly I go to the bathroom, and even in the bathroom itself there were photos of Madrid… And I called Antero, “Go into the bathroom and see what’s there.” That was our situation,”
Ferrer stated.
He also credited PSG’s then-manager Unai Emery for convincing the teenage sensation to join the club. According to the former director of the club, the Spaniard had a personal conversation with the player and promised him first-team football right from the get-go.
Mbappe went on to score 126 times for the Parisians in just over 150 appearances, including 25 of them in the Champions League.
