Tag: Aurélien Tchouameni

Tchouameni rejected Mbappe’s plea to join PSG

Mbappe did his best for PSG, but Tchouameni made his choice

Aurélien Tchouameni just joined Real Madrid, but according to the young France midfielder, Kylian Mbappe tried his best to lure him to Paris Saint-Germain.

Tchouameni moved to Real Madrid in a €100 million deal last week and will wear the number 18 shirt, but during his official unveiling today in Madrid, the move didn’t come without Mbappe attempting some salesmanship.

“Kylian decided to stay at PSG and he already knew I was going to leave Monaco and wanted to know if I could go to PSG,” Tchouameni told reporters. “I told him I wanted Madrid.”

Mbappe wasn’t the only France player making appeals to Tchouameni, as the 22-year-old midfielder said that Karim Benzema and Eduardo Camavinga helped him make his choice.

“I have been lucky enough to speak with Benzema and Camavinga. In the case of Camavinga, we have seen how he has improved in his first year,” said Tchouameni. “I am going to be lucky enough to play for the club with the best striker in the world. When the negotiations progressed, he wrote to me and he asked me if he could help me.”

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Tchouameni joins Real Madrid in €100m transfer from Monaco

Real Madrid splashed the cash to bolster their midfield

Aurélien Tchouameni has completed a massive transfer to Real Madrid, with the France midfielder moving from AS Monaco in what Goal reports is—between the transfer fee and potential bonuses—a €100m deal.

Tchouameni has been a fixture in deep-lying midfield for Monaco over the past two seasons, helping them to two straight 3rd place finishes in Ligue 1 as well as this past year’s Europa League knockout stages.

With France, he took over a first-choice role in the late stages of World Cup qualifying last year, including playing the full 90 in the 2021 UEFA Nations League final. Barring injury, he seems like a lock for Didier Deschamps’ World Cup roster.

Paris Saint-Germain and Liverpool were both at times linked with a move for Tchouameni, but Real Madrid emerged recently as the most likely landing spot. Tchouameni joins Antonio Rüdiger on the list of incoming summer transfers for los Blancos.

While the Real Madrid midfield is as packed with top-tier stars as ever, the European champions are very reliant on the health of Casemiro, the only truly natural No. 6 in the squad. Tchouameni, at just 22, will likely be a big factor in how Carlo Ancelotti plans for the next few seasons as an aging core group is slowly phased out of the starting eleven.

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