Ligue 1 star ‘rejects’ Arsenal despite audacious swap deal amid Liverpool ‘super offer’

Arsenal target Kylian Mbappe

Kylian Mbappe celebrates scoring a goal in a Euro 2024 qualifier.

Paris Saint-Germain forwarrd Kylian Mbappe has rejected a deal to join Arsenal this summer in favour of Real Madrid, according to reports.

The France international has been offered a staggering deal worth €700m for one year at Al-Hilal with the Saudi Pro League club making a bid of €300m to PSG, which has been accepted.

A number of reports have already claimed that Mbappe doesn’t want to move to Saudi Arabia as he wants to achieve things in Europe in the upcoming campaign.

French football journalist Lisa Leroux thinks Mbappe “really is a once in a generation player” but that “he won’t go, for him it’s more than just about the money”.

“No player has ever been offered this salary in football, and I think even in sporting history for one year,” Leroux told BBC Sport. “The salary that he would be getting would just be historic and out of this world.

“It would be about 59m euros a month, almost 2m euros a day.”

The offer comes after PSG decided to put him up for sale this summer after becoming convinced that he had agreed to join Real Madrid on a free transfer next summer.

Every single big European club will be keeping an eye on the situation with Mbappe in case they can somehow pull off a move for the Frenchman – but the most likely destination still seems to be Real Madrid.

And Spanish newspaper Nacional agree with a report claiming that Mbappe has ‘rejected’ a move to Premier League side Arsenal in order to fulfill his ‘dream’ to play for Real Madrid.

Arsenal ‘has positioned itself to be able to incorporate’ Mbappe this summer with Mikel Arteta having ‘the money and have the space within the squad’ to buy the 24-year-old.

But Mbappe is ‘very clear about what he wants to do with his future and has already turned down Arsenal’ and ‘he is getting closer to the Santiago Bernabéu and Florentino Pérez’.

Nacional insist that Real Madrid are ‘waiting for the best moment’ to pounce for Mbappe. The report adds: ‘His future could be decided in the coming weeks and everything indicates that it will be Real Madrid who ends up taking him.’

Arsenal were also linked with Mbappe over the weekend with a report saying that the Gunners were planning to use Gabriel Martinelli in a potential swap deal.

It was claimed yesterday that Liverpool had made a ‘super offer’ for Mbappe that was set to make Real Madrid ‘tremble’ but it seems extremely unlikely that the Reds have the finances to pull off such a deal.

Football finance expert Kieran Maguire has explained how Saudi Arabia are able to make such huge offers for players in comparison to European clubs.

“What distinguishes the Saudi Pro League from European football is there isn’t the restriction of financial fair play,” Maguire said.

“Therefore, even if Premier League clubs do offer more money, they will always be out-bid as they [the Saudi clubs] don’t have any cost control restrictions.”