The Unreliable Rumours Discussion Thread (Part 2)

Guess they will bid 200 million for Salah next season.

Itā€™s probably likely.

I think with Salah it will be has he achieved all he wants to do in Europe.

I have noticed when someone shows competition they usually lose out.

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PSG are going to be the greatest joke in all of European footballā€¦

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Fify :wink:

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Ā£259m for a bloke with one year left on his contract and no intention of signing another. That would be a phenomenal outcome given the circumstances.

Thereā€™s just the little matter of the player accepting the offerā€¦

Heā€™ll go, and never be the same player again.
The extreme wealth and adulation will go to his head. Heā€™s already showing signs of losing perspective.

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Thereā€™s zero indication that this is anything other than a stunt by PSGā€¦

Well yes but the other option is he stays at PSG for another season and that route seems to be becoming more untenable by the day.

Why is it untenable?

He has a contract. That contract pays him 100m, whether PSG want him to play in the reserves or notā€¦

So you think heā€™d sit out a year of his career in the PSG reserves rather than play a year in Saudia Arabia for an ungodly sum of tax free cash? And all the while heā€™ll be subjected to incredible scrutiny and pressure from all kinds of parties.

Maybe he will, but thereā€™s a Euros next summer hell no doubt have an eye on. I think it might just be an attempt to flush out Madrid though.

Of course its an attempt to flush out Madrid. Whether theyā€™ll bite is a whole different questionā€¦
The idea of him in the reserves of PSG is what is actually untenableā€¦As you can see already with the players association press releaseā€¦

Man City can come with a bid?

Signed a contract though didnā€™t he. If they choose not to pick him thatā€™s their right isnā€™t it? Maybe not the reserves but they arenā€™t forced to play him.

Didnā€™t his last contract state that he had a certain amount of power with the team ? Maybe being included etc

Pretty sure PSG leadership cannot sustain such a decision, esp as Mbappeā€™s people have already said heā€™s willing to sit tight.

PSG treat their players like indentured servants. Not sure they can this timeā€¦
Mbappe holds all the aces in thisā€¦at least most of it.

Or Newcastle

Kopstar explained once that it can be interpreted as a breach of contract to freeze out a player, which can open the door to them being allowed to walk away for free.

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Franceā€™s National Union of Professional Footballers (UNFP) has threatened legal action against Paris Saint-Germain over the clubā€™s attempts to force Kylian Mbappe to accept a summer transfer.

Having already confirmed his decision not to trigger his contract extension beyond next summer, Mbappe has been warned by PSG that he will be sold immediately if he does not agree to a new deal.

To ramp up the pressure on Mbappe, PSG decided to leave the 24-year-old out of their pre-season squad, insisting to the French forward that his only options are to agree to leave or, preferably, sign an extension.

PSGā€™s tactics have been blasted by the UNFP, who accused the Ligue 1 side of breaking French law by intentionally forcing Mbappe to accept poorer working conditions.

ā€œThese players - all of them - must enjoy the same working conditions as the rest of the professional workforce,ā€ the union said.

"The UNFP feels it would be useful to remind managers that putting pressure on an employee - via the deterioration of their working conditions, for example - to force them to leave or accept what the employer wants constitutes moral harassment, which French law firmly condemns.

ā€œSo, yes, the UNFP reserves the right to take civil and criminal action against any club that behaves in this way.ā€

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A transfer for those fans who only love football for the banter and goading and the transfer windows.