Kylian Mbappe ‘will complete £168million PSG move today’ by joining on loan for a year from Monaco
Qatar-backed club has already splashed out an outrageous £198m on Brazilian Neymar and are not finished yet
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KYLIAN MBAPPE will join PSG on a season-long loan on Wednesday before completing his £168million move next year, according to reports in France.
The France flyer completed a medical at the country’s Clairefrontaine base on Tuesday, to avoid disrupting his training with the national side.
reveal the temporary move will be made permanent on July 1, 2018 - as long as PSG don't get relegated from Ligue 1 – to help the Paris side hurdle Financial Fair Play regulations.
The Qatar-backed club has already splashed out an outrageous £198m on Brazilian Neymar this window and FFP regulations state you can only spend £27m more than you earn.
PSG players are already prepared to welcome the Monaco man to the Parc des Princes.
Midfielder Adrien Rabiot can’t wait to have his compatriot to aim passes into as he works in one of the most electric attack forces in the world with Neymar and Edinson Cavani.
Rabiot said: "There will certainly be a traffic jam ahead, but this is a matter for the club and the coach.
“What is certain is that we will have a very large number of options with Neymar, Cavani, Mbappe and the other attackers present.
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“Neymar and Mbappe, in particular, can play the three positions of the attack.
“It could already have been the case before Kylian's arrival but now, of course, PSG will have one of the best attacks in the world.”
If the complex contract lets PSG avoid posting losses in excess of that £27m-mark over three years it would make a mockery of FFP rules.
PSG have already had to deny the Qatari state has paid for Mbappe to avoid the deal going through their accounts.
And this confusing deal to sign the striker on loan – and Monaco’s willingness to let it happen – will be thoroughly examined.
Mbappe’s dad has revealed his boy almost joined Real Madrid in 2013 to fulfil his dream of working with Zinedine Zidane.
But the retired France star did not take up a management role at the Bernabeu until a year later – under Carlo Ancelotti – by which time he had been snapped up by Monaco.