Saudi Arabia's Al Hilal submit record offer for Mbappé

Saudi Arabia is revolutionizing football with dizzying offers that have already convinced several illustrious players from the best European leagues. The ambitious Saudi project has raised its sights even higher and now points to a world-class footballer, one of the best in the world, the Frenchman Kylian Mbappé.

According to the newspaper L’Équipe, Al Hilal would have offered 300 million euros to PSG to take over the striker’s services, an offer that the Parisian club would have already accepted, according to ‘Sky Sports’. The Arab club must now convince Mbappé. If the operation is completed, it would be the most expensive transfer in the history of football. It would exceed the 222 million paid by the Parisian club to Barça for Neymar in the summer of 2017.

The French champion, who has his star separated by his refusal to renew, excluded from the tour of Japan, is willing to listen to all offers. The Saudi club’s proposal is the highest, but the French newspaper also points to the interest of other English clubs such as Chelsea, Manchester United and Tottenham, as well as Italian Inter Milan.

Al Hilal, the most successful club in Saudi Arabia, already has in its ranks players who played football on the old continent last season, such as the Serbian Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, who was at Lazio, and the Senegalese Kalidou Koulibaly, who belonged to Chelsea.

Mbappé, however, has always shown his desire to achieve maximum sporting glory, especially the Champions League, something that Saudi Arabia cannot offer him. The Frenchman’s objective, according to various media outlets, is to join Real Madrid at no transfer cost next summer, the club he sympathized with in his childhood.

In principle, the Madrid club will not make any financial effort to get Mbappé in this transfer market, as it did in 2021, when it offered 200 million. The strategy of the entity chaired by Florentino Pérez is to wait for the Frenchman to arrive for free in the 2024-25 season, as he already tried last year before the player finally renewed with the Parisians.