Vinicius does persuasion work for Real: Bellingham is often written

Hope for Mbappé transfer

Vinicius Junior wants Kylian Mbappé to move to Real Madrid. “Everyone here wants to play with Kylian. I hope it happens one day. He is one of the best players, perhaps the best of all at the moment. He’s on a level that’s out of this world,” said the 23-year-old Brazilian in an interview with “France Football“.

Mbappé is repeatedly associated with the “Royals”. A free transfer to the Spanish capital was in the offing in 2022, but the striker declined and instead extended his contract with Paris Saint-Germain for another two years. The topic came up again in the last transfer window. Because it was PSG’s last chance to collect a transfer fee for the world star, Mbappé was temporarily sidelined and taken out of team training. There were also reports of a 300 million offer from the Saudi club Al-Hilal.

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Ultimately, Neymar moved from PSG to Al-Hilal and Mbappé returned to training and the squad “after very constructive and positive discussions” in time for the start of the Ligue 1 season. Mbappé is in the final year of his contract, so Real will have a new opportunity next summer to bring him to Madrid without having to negotiate with PSG. The 24-year-old will officially be allowed to speak to other clubs from January 1st, but Real board member José Manuel Otero Lastres had recently virtually announced a deal for the summer of 2024.

Vinicius Junior about Bellingham: “I wrote him messages for months”

Vinicius Junior wants to stay out of the matter, but he says he did some persuading work on the deals for Jude Bellingham and Eduardo Camavinga: “Juni (Calafat, Real’s chief scout; editor) has become a friend and he knows that I’ll help him if I can.”

About Bellingham, Vinicius Junior said: “I wrote him messages for months! I told him: ‘This is the best club in the world.’ I knew other clubs wanted him.” He didn’t know the Englishman personally, “but I really wanted him to join us. Jude is one of the best in the world and the whole team loves him. He scores goals and is happy. He chose the best club.” At Real they are “happy that he signed”. Bellingham’s transfer fee cost 103 million euros, but bonuses can increase it to up to 133.9 million euros. Then he would become the most expensive signing in Real’s history.

After the furious start with ten goals and three assists in ten competitive games, Bellingham was the biggest winner in LaLiga’s market value update, increasing by 30 million to 150 million euros. This makes him, along with Vinicius Junior, the most valuable player in Spain; in a global comparison, he ranks behind Mbappé and Erling Haaland.

Vinicius Junior, meanwhile, believes he can spend the rest of his career at Real. But he promised his father that one day he would return to his youth club Flamengo, which he left for Madrid in 2018 for 45 million euros. It is the club of his life and he has to keep his promise. According to reports, Vinicius Junior is under contract with Real until 2027, but this is not officially known.

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