L'Equipe: Liverpool offered Mbappé 200 million euros in the summer of 22, but Paris asked for 400 million euros

According to L'Equipe, Liverpool offered Mbappe 200 million euros in the summer of 2022, and the player agreed to join, but Paris asked for 400 million euros.

It is reported that after renewing his contract with Paris Saint-Germain in May 2022, Mbappe could have left the club that summer. According to multiple sources, Paris Saint-Germain knew as early as the summer of 2022 that Mbappe was willing to leave. Shortly after signing the new contract, the French striker felt "betrayed" by Paris's project, especially in the early stages of the transfer window, when he believed that the club had not fulfilled its promises (originally expecting to introduce Bernardo Silva and Lewandowski).

Faced with this situation, Mbappe's team had asked Paris' top management to leave the club before the transfer window closed. Angry at the top, Mbappe no longer seemed to want to wear the Paris Saint-Germain jersey. In the first round of the 2022-23 Ligue 1 match against Clermont, Paris officials confirmed that he was absent due to injury, but it was actually Mbappe who asked not to play to wait for his situation to be clarified. At this time, he was in conflict with the club's top management and felt that he had been deceived.

It is reported that Mbappe has been through a difficult period mentally, and Paris Saint-Germain responded to his desire to leave the team and asked him to provide a clear transfer offer. It is reported that Mbappe has received two offers: one from Real Madrid, but Paris does not intend to negotiate with Real Madrid, and the other from Liverpool, with an amount of 200 million euros, and the club's former sports director Antero Enrique is responsible for negotiating with Mbappe's team. However, Antero Enrique asked the other party to double the offer, which is obviously closing the door to leaving the team. At the same time, Mbappe also reached an agreement with Liverpool on a short-term contract, allowing him to join Real Madrid soon, which was also his wish at the time.

In addition, Mbappe also said when he renewed his contract in 2022 that this was not an easy decision.

Paris executives had learned in the summer of 2022 that Mbappe did not intend to renew his contract and would not activate the option to extend his contract for one year. This intention was confirmed a year later through a letter, which officially stated that he would not choose to extend his contract.

However, within Paris, there are different accounts of this. An insider mentioned that Liverpool's contact was more like verbal, while another source denied this: "Liverpool has never made a formal offer, and Liverpool has never had enough funds. Since Mbappe renewed his contract, we have reached a consensus that if an offer that satisfies both the club and the player appears, the two sides will find a solution. After 2022, the only formal offer came from Saudi Arabia, and the club has accepted it. Someone is trying to make up a story that never existed."