Paris Saint-Germain are set to pay Kylian Mbappe as much as £546million, after offering him a huge deal to block him from joining Real Madrid in the summer.
Mbappe put pen to paper on a three-year contract extension with the club, which would keep him in Paris until June 2025.
It later emerged that the 23-year-old had in fact put pen to a two-year contract until June 2024, with the third year optional and up to him, not the club.
If Mbappe does agitate for a move then the financial implications for PSG could be huge, following revelations about his contract from Le Parisien. According to the French newspaper, the French giants have committed to paying Mbappe a whopping €630m (£546m) over the next few years.
It is a figure which they claim makes it the biggest contract in football history, ahead of the €555m Barcelona paid Mbappe’s now teammate Lionel Messi between 2017 and 2021. And it is way bigger than the €267m Neymar will earn over six years from 2017 to 2023 at the club.
Mbappe is now responsible for a quarter of the club’s entire budget and he holds all the cards. His basic wage is reported to be €6m (£5.21m) per month, which is reduced to a more modest €2.7m (£2.34m) after tax, but does represent a tripling of his previous agreement.