He’ll obtain a wage of a minimum of 15 million euros per season and a signing bonus of greater than 100 million euros.
Kylian Mbappé was formally welcomed to Actual Madrid on Tuesday after years of talks and hypothesis the Frenchman would ultimately be part of the Spanish giants.
Fulfilling his childhood dream in entrance of a packed Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, he placed on the Actual Madrid quantity 9 jersey, handed on from former striker Karim Benzema.
Practically 80,000 followers have been current at Bernabéu to welcome the 25-year-old star throughout his official presentation because the membership’s latest participant.
After signing his five-year contract with the Spanish powerhouse alongside membership president Florentino Pérez, Mbappé entered the stage arrange on the Bernabeu to loud cheers by the Madrid followers.
Mbappé smiled broadly and waved to the followers who chanted his identify, then embraced Pérez and former Madrid participant and coach Zinedine Zidane, who invited Mbappé to go to the Spanish membership for the primary time when he was simply a teen.
“It is an unbelievable day for me,” Mbappé instructed the gang, in Spanish. ”Since being a child I dreamed about enjoying for Madrid and right now I am right here. It means lots to me.”
Mbappé completed his speech by asking the gang to hitch him and chant “Hala Madrid,” earlier than kissing the membership’s protect and kicking balls to crowds within the stands at Bernabeu.
“Now I’ve one other dream, which is to dwell as much as the historical past of this membership, the perfect membership on this planet,” he stated. “I’ll give my life to this membership and to this protect”.
Pérez known as Mbappé’s presentation a “historic act” for the membership.
“Right this moment we welcome an distinctive participant who right now is fulfilling his childhood dream,” Pérez stated. “Right this moment you might be right here as a result of it is one thing that you simply wished. Thanks for making a fantastic effort to have the ability to put on this white jersey”.
Mbappé’s presentation got here after he performed on the 2024 European Championship, the place France misplaced to eventual champion Spain within the semi-finals.
After years of attempting to signal the younger participant, Madrid lastly reached a take care of him in June when he opted not to stick with Paris Saint-Germain and have become a free agent.
Mbappé had performed membership soccer just for French groups — first at Monaco earlier than becoming a member of PSG and staying there for the previous seven seasons.
Pérez made signing Mbappé a strategic membership precedence because the powerhouse didn’t lock him up when he visited the membership’s amenities at age 14 and as a substitute joined Monaco’s youth academy.
In 2021, Madrid was rejected after providing PSG a bid of 180 million euros, the identical quantity PSG paid Monaco for a teenage Mbappé years earlier.
