PSG: would Real Madrid have the means to pay Mbappé's salary?

The more the months go by, the more the goal Kylian Mbappé moves away from Real Madrid.

The Covid-19 pandemic is causing economic damage that football clubs are not immune to, even the most powerful.

The Spanish giant with the 13 Champions Leagues is facing, like PSG in France, huge revenue losses which must be compensated.

What to block or delay the ambitions of a galactic recruitment represented by the arrivals of Mbappé, Paul Pogba or Erling Haaland, three names regularly cited as targets.

In mid-November, Real Madrid, like the rest of the professional teams in Spain, saw a significant reduction in its "salary cap" imposed.

This maximum limit that each club can spend on salaries (first team, technical staff, medical staff, training center) has been lowered by 27%, from 641 million euros (M €) for the 2019-2020 season to 468 million. € for the 2020-2021 season within the Madrid club.

Determined by LaLiga, the equivalent of our LFP, this course is binding.

In case of non-compliance, the clubs risk financial penalties, up to an automatic reduction of 15% further for the following season.

Fear of further financial loss

By way of comparison, FC Barcelona has experienced an even greater fall: from 656 M € authorized to 382 M € for the current financial year, ie more than 40% decrease.

"The pandemic does not affect everyone in the same way," sums up Javier Tebas, president of LaLiga.

The bigger the club, the more it gets hit.

I do not hesitate to warn Barcelona and Real Madrid that they must prepare for a year of transition and […] build a more correct economy ”.

This same Javier Tebas specifying that the "strategy" and "salaries" of Barça had led the Catalan club to a situation even more uncertain than that of Real Madrid.

Very concretely, the club coached by Zinedine Zidane is still protected from bankruptcy.

According to sources close to Real Madrid, the club has managed to negotiate with its players a drop of 10 to 15% of their salary for the current season.

This would bring their payroll to around 330 M € and therefore still far from the limit imposed at 468 M €.

"The most worrying thing is whether the stadiums will remain empty for a long time and if this could therefore affect the budget for the following season," said around the Madrid club.

According to the newspaper AS, Real could lose nearly € 200 million in revenue if the ticket office remains closed until next June.

“Behind PSG, there is Qatar.

Behind Real, who is there?

No one"

The biggest fear on the side of Madrid would be to see a further drop in the wage bill for the 2021-2022 season.

Last summer, concluded without arrivals but with nearly € 110m in transfers on the transfer market, proved the cautious strategy of President Florentino Pérez, who watches with a fearful eye the much more worrying situation of Barça.

A transfer from Kylian Mbappé?

It would be necessary to pay an indemnity exceeding 150 M € and offer him a net salary ranging from 25 to 30 M € per year.

“You have to be careful.

Behind PSG, there is Qatar.

Behind Real, who is there?

Nobody, ”blows someone close to the club.

And even if Real managed to bring together these financial arguments, it would still be necessary to convince the French world champion of the solidity of the project with, no doubt, other recruits.

A situation which gives credit to the words of Leonardo, Parisian sports director.

"PSG will be the team for the next five years", he proclaimed on November 10, believing that he had "the capacity to overcome the crisis".