Tuchel future, Mbappe Real Madrid and more

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It’s been a difficult season at Bayern, and particularly in the last few days as they suffered a third defeat in a row last night, losing 3-2 against Bochum.

Still, at the moment, Bayern’s position is clear: they plan to continue with Thomas Tuchel as manager. Let’s see how the conversations will continue, but this is the tendency at the club following internal talks.

In my opinion there are multiple problems for Bayern this season, not only the manager. For instance, a new midfielder signing was needed in January – Joao Palhinha from Fulham would have been perfect and then they did not sign another player in that position.

Tuchel has spoken publicly to state his belief that he and his coaching staff can turn this around, so let’s see what happens, but for now Bayern will not be making a change and the plan is to stick with Tuchel.

We are entering into really important days for the Kylian Mbappe saga. We already know that he has communicated to Paris Saint-Germain president Nasser Al-Khelaifi that he would be leaving, and as I always said, the PSG chief was going to be the first person to know.

Mbappe has also communicated to his teammates before a training session that he would be leaving the club, but he hasn’t mentioned a future club yet. From what I’m hearing, in both the Real Madrid and PSG dressing rooms, the feeling is clear: Mbappe is joining Real Madrid this summer after a long saga.

We know the feeling is strong in the Real Madrid board as well – they believe they now have it all set to happen. In January, they sent a formal contract proposal to Mbappe, to his mother, to his camp, to his lawyers, and obviously the player himself. Now they have to proceed with the signing stage – this is the crucial moment.

Let me clarify again that the salary of Mbappe at Real Madrid will be much lower than the one proposed in 2022, and also the signing-on fee is going to be lower. It’s still a big amount of money, but it’s not the same.

In the last 24 hours, Mbappe told Al-Khelaifi that he doesn’t want any new offer from PSG, he considers this story over. He doesn’t want a new contract, he doesn’t want to consider any other proposal, because he’s leaving –…