Transfer deadline: Kylian Mbappe “will join Real Madrid for FREE next summer”

Real Madrid will seal a sensational free transfer for Kylian Mbappe next summer after failing with a final attempt to bring the PSG superstar to the Bernabeu, according to reports.

Mbappe – widely regarded as one of the best players in world football – is only one year old on his contract in Paris and has been heavily linked with a move to Madrid, not having signed new terms.

After Lionel Messi’s astonishing stint at PSG, the La Liga giants made their choice for Mbappe – by filing an initial offer of £ 137million, which was quickly rejected, with Madrid then increasing their offer to £ 145million sterling plus £ 9million in supplements – but that was also shot by the Parisians.

Kylian Mbappe to secure transfer to Real Madrid on free transfer next summer, reports show

Carlo Ancelotti’s side made a late move to sign the Frenchman but PSG rejected several offers

And now Air sports claim the deal is dead in the water – Madrid walking away from the negotiating table after trying their luck with a final offer of £ 189million and hearing nothing from PSG.

Los Blancos will now complete Mbappe’s transfer next summer for absolutely nothing after agreeing pre-contractual terms with the World Cup winner in January, the report adds.

It signals the end of one of the most controversial transfer sagas of the summer and instead leaves football fans drooling over the idea that he is bonding with fellow strikers Messi and Neymar this season.

Mbappe intended to join Madrid and rejected offers to renew his current contract

PSG’s remarkable deal to sign Messi has clearly done nothing to dissuade Mbappe from his wish to move to Spain, but his club have shown a serious challenge to prevent his top player from leaving – even if he risks losing it for nothing.

Club transfer chief Leonardo was furious at Real’s attempt to sign Mbappe and accused them of an ‘illegal’ approach. The Frenchman signed for PSG from Monaco for around £ 165million in 2017 and the club’s supremo felt Madrid were not responding to their demands to let him go.

In an interview, Leonardo said: “PSG’s position has always been to keep Kylian. This has been the goal for two years and it remains unchanged.

For now, football fans will be eager to see him join Leo Messi this season

“We made him (Mbappe) a big offer two months ago – at the level of the best players – and one even more recently which was even higher, but it is a strategy of Real Madrid, to have the name of one of our players.

“In the last two years Madrid’s behavior has been incorrect, illegal, coming into contact with their representatives, unacceptable, completely incorrect towards us. And the proof of this strategy is to present an offer seven days before the market closes and one year before the end of his contract. It sounds like a strategy that suggests they’ve tried everything.

‘It’s not the sum [offered] what we think is far from what we thought. And we’re not going to sell a player for less than what we paid for him when he was 18. We have to give Monaco a certain amount and the offer is not enough. ‘

The transfer deadline wasn’t a complete disappointment for Madrid – they secured the signing of starlet midfielder Eduardo Camavinga from Rennes on a six-year contract.