Kylian Mbappe: Real Madrid striker ‘buys French club Caen for £16.9m’

Real Madrid striker Kylian Mbappe has agreed a £16.9m woody to go nan mostly proprietor of French second-tier broadside SM Caen, according to a report.

France skipper Mbappe will not play home shot successful his homeland for nan first clip adjacent play aft leaving Paris St-Germain for Madrid successful June, but nan 25-year-old has strengthened his engagement successful nan French crippled by becoming nan mostly shareholder successful nan Normandy club, Le Parisien has said.

Mbappe will win American finance money Oaktree, which bought 80 per cent of Caen’s shares successful 2020, successful a woody which will beryllium completed wrong hours, nan outlet added.

SM Caen: Mbappe to return over?

Pierre-Antoine Capton, nan president of Caen’s supervisory committee and nan holder of nan remainder of nan shares, will reportedly beryllium co-owner alongside Mbappe, who is said to beryllium installing Ziad Hammoud, nan main executive of his image company, arsenic president.

Hammoud is nan erstwhile head of strategy and investments astatine beIN Media Group, whose owner, Nasser Al-Khelaifi, is nan president of PSG.

Caen are known to person intimately tracked Mbappe arsenic a kid prodigy, approaching him to subordinate them astatine astir nan aforesaid clip arsenic he toured Madrid’s accommodation arsenic an 11-year-old.

Le Parisien said Caen’s “charm offensive” had made them Mbappe’s penchant astatine nan time, pinch schoolhouse support, a three-year trainee statement and a first master woody said to person been successful place.

The Vikings’ relegation from Ligue 1 successful 2011/12 is thought to person hindered a deal, though they later returned to nan apical formation for 5 seasons until being relegated again successful 2019.

Mbappe: Madrid striker ‘loves football’

The study added that nan takeover by Mbappe, whose five-year woody astatine Madrid is said to beryllium worthy astir £190m successful total, will not create a “revolution” astatine Caen.

“Given his activity, [he] will, successful reality, beryllium very small coming successful Normandy successful nan coming years,” Le Parisien said. “[Mbappe will be] keeping nan DNA of SM Caen, taking it measurement by step, without having nan delusions of grandeur linked to nan personality of its early caller owner.”

Mbappe’s mother, Fayza Lamari, said earlier this period that Mbappe was considering investing successful Caen, Nimes and non-French clubs.

“Kylian loves shot a lot,” she said. “But it’s portion of investments, for illustration others. For nan moment, there’s not much. We’re prospecting.

“We’re talking to respective entities. As soon arsenic it’s Kylian, it takes connected different dimension. But Caen is simply a beautiful region, you know.”

A woody would spot Mbappe travel nan likes of David Beckham astatine Inter Miami and Zlatan Ibrahimovic astatine Hammarby arsenic footballers to person invested successful clubs, though it is different for an progressive subordinate to make nan move.

Founded successful 1913, Caen vanished sixth successful Ligue 2 past play and are managed by their all-time grounds quality holder, Nicolas Seube.