Mbappe to Real Madrid: PSG offer joins list of insane football contract clauses

Paris Saint-Germain look increasingly resigned to the fact that they will lose Kylian Mbappe for free.

After endless speculation and discussion, the French superstar looks set to complete a transfer to Real Madrid ahead of the 2022/23 season, following the expiry of his contract at PSG.

Los Blancos have fought tooth and nail to ensure that Mbappe – already one of the best players in the world at 23 – does not slip through their grasp and does become a Real Madrid player upon becoming a free agent.

And while it has felt like the world’s worst kept secret for some time now that Mbappe would end up at the Santiago Bernabeu, that isn’t to say PSG haven’t tried to keep their exceptional French starlet.

Les Parisiens rejected a bid of around £145.8 million in the summer of 2021 – the same summer that saw Mbappe enter the final 12 months of his deal – and again rejected approaches in January 2022, in a hope that they could convince the three-time Ligue 1 Player of the Year to sign a new deal.

Their most recent offer in an attempt to keep him around, however, is absolutely absurd.

According to Spanish outlet El Chiringuito, PSG tabled an extraordinary offer to Mbappe that would’ve seen him own the club’s sporting project, giving him the power to change the club’s managers, coaches and players.

Yes, you read that correctly. This of course goes alongside an astronomical financial offer, too, if the report is to be believed.

That would surely be the first – and certainly the most high profile – instance of an active player at a club having executive powers over the manager and squad. Mind blowing.

Hearing the news got us at GIVEMESPORT thinking about the slightly less extreme, but just as bizarre clauses that have been rumoured and