The mega-money Frenchman has been tentatively linked with Liverpool.
Spanish football expert Guillem Balague has claimed that Liverpool won’t be pulling off a blockbuster deal for Kylian Mbappe anytime soon.
The Reds have been tentatively linked with a mega-money move for the Paris Saint-Germain striker.
Last month, El Desmarque reported that Liverpool are genuinely interested in the French marksman.
But is a move on the cards? Not according to Balague, who claims that Mbappe – who earns £320,000 per week in Paris [Silly Season] – would ‘destroy’ Liverpool’s wage structure.
He said on his YouTube channel, when asked if Jurgen Klopp could sign him: “No. Obviously they like Mbappe but he would destroy the wage structure of Liverpool now.
“They’d have to invest a lot in getting him, so forget that one.”
That last part from Balague might be a bit of an understatement. With the wages he’s reportedly on now, that works out at £16.6 million in salary alone for a year, which is some £83 million over the course of a five-year contract.
And we haven’t even talked about what he would cost Liverpool in terms of transfer fee yet.
According to CIES, he is worth a minimum of £220 million, so yeah, a move to Merseyside – or anywhere else – looks impossible right now.
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