The Mailbox offers a suggestion for how Arsenal could borrow Kylian Mbappe while still making £50million from PSG. Also: have Man Utd been fooling us all along?
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Mbappe (or Neymar) to Arsenal
I sent an email which was the result of a brain fart to do with the idea of Mbappe going to Arsenal. Seems crazy but I have now had time to inhale the aromas properly and have crystalised my thoughts – which sounds a bit rank.
Anyway, bear with me. So Real Madrid want Mbappe but can’t yet afford to buy him outright and are holding out for him to arrive in 2024 as a free Bosman transfer. Mbappe has now made his position at PSG almost intenable due to the comments he’s made and so there is a need for him to get out of there for the upcoming season so he can be ready to get over to Real next summer. This seems like the iԀєɑł opportunity for Arsenal to leap onto this. He could go head to head (tete a tete) with Haaland for the golden boot and become an instant legєɴԀ.
Here’s how we could pull this off. So, we have Balogun who played pretty well in France last season and we’d like Mbappe for at least one season. How about we sell Balogun to PSG for £50m so he can flourish there and at the same time take Mbappe on loan until next Summer? Surely this would be a win-win situation as he’ll help us (definitely) win the league next season and further drive up his stock ahead of his move on a free to Real Madrid. Arteta would also be fond of this situation as it will put himself in the shop window for the Real (or more likely Barca) role. Which of course is not what I want, but I am realistic as he is clearly a highly ambitious manager.
Alternatively, the exact scenario could also be played out with Neymar and in some ways this could be more realistic with our Brasilian connection in Edu, Martinelli, Jesus and Gabriel etc… Although he does seem a bit of a dick and so I personally don’t fancy that.
Basically, what I am saying is that Arsenal will be signing one of those two superstars before the close of the window. You heard it here first (or maybe from some nutcase on Twitter/Meta’s new version of Twitter).
