Florentino Perez explains why Real Madrid didn’t sign Mbappe

Real Madrid president Florentino Perez spoke to El Español and explained why Los Blancos did not complete the signing of Kylian Mbappe, who ended up joining Paris Saint-Germain instead.

“We thought about signing him but we have a fairly complete team. He’s very young and he has many years ahead of him so I think he made the right decision by joining his hometown club. It wasn’t easy for us to fit him on our team because even though he’s a great talent he’s still very young and might need to play more often like he’s doing with PSG,” says Perez, suggesting that Mbappe would not be a starter for Real Madrid.

Perez also mentioned Marco Asensio and said that the Spanish wonder kid has a very good chance of becoming a star like Mbappe. In the end, the French attacker joined PSG even though most reports from Spain indicated that a deal with Madrid was eventually going to happen.