KYLIAN MBAPPE is willing to take a pay cut to sign for Real Madrid, according to reports.
Paris Saint-Germain are determined to hold onto the French forward, whose contract expires in 2022.
Kylian Mbappe is set for a year of speculation over a potential move to Real MadridCredit: EPA
But advances from Madrid are growing with more and more reports that an offer will be launched next summer.
Should a bid land, Mbappe will reportedly do what he can to make the deal happen.
That includes, according to Spanish show El Chiringuito, cutting his salary.
Mbappe is thought to earn £375,000-a-week in Paris after signing from Monaco in 2017.
Talks between PSG and the 21-year-old over a contract renewal have reportedly focused on bumping his wage up to £600,000-a-week.
Yet money may be no issue if Mbappe gets the green light to join Real.
Los Blancos hope PSG will not put up much of a fight if the player has already made up his mind.
A transfer fee of just £111million has been touted for the World Cup winner.
Such a price could even entice Premier League clubs such as Liverpool or Manchester United into making a bid.
But Madrid are certainly the frontrunners in any Mbappe deal, with the striker calling Real boss Zinedine Zidane his childhood “idol”.
He said in January: “I’ve had phases. To start, as a child, it was Zidane.
“If you’re a boy and you’re French, your idol is Zidane.
Real Madrid already have one of the highest wage bills in the world
“After that, it was Cristiano [Ronaldo] and I’ve been lucky enough to face him. Then it was the Brazilian Ronaldo for the way he played.”
The previous year, Zidane had remarked: “You know that I have known [Mbappe] for a long time.
“I am already in love with him, firstly as a person, because he came to do a trial here a long time ago.”
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Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
