Arsenal: Kylian Mbappe future hopes rising with PSG link

Arsenal were knocked out of the Kylian Mbappe race pretty early on, but for the sake of their future, PSG grants hope to the Gunners.

Let’s take a brief moment to step away from Arsenal’s sensational win over Leicester City and do our daily contribution to the transfer rumor pool.

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Arsenal has not had much luck with Monaco this summer. At the beginning of the summer, the two players most heavily linked to the Gunners were Kylian Mbappe and Thomas Lemar, yet an early exit from the Mbappe race and the French club clinging to Lemar has changed our hopes a bit.

With the price tag of Mbappe shooting up near £150m, it’s easy to see why the Gunners were priced out. But just because it happens once, doesn’t mean it will always be that way. In fact, we should still have a vested interest in where he lands just because it could spur a future move down the road.

That’s why being linked to Real Madrid seemed like the kiss of death. Real Madrid is a club that you can make a career out of. They are always going to be among the best teams in the world and they are always going to be able to retain the services of whoever they want.

If Mbappe went there, I doubted if Arsenal would ever really have a good chance of signing him ever again.

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But recent developments have him tied more so to PSG than Real Madrid, in a deal said to be worth £165m (via the Mirror). How exactly PSG can spend a similar amount on Neymar and then re-up and do it all over again with Mbappe is beyond me, but hey, I won’t complain if they can steal the young Frenchman away from Real Madrid.

Mostly because PSG has less stickiness than Madrid. As big of a club as they are, they are still only in Ligue 1, a league whose competitiveness doesn’t do them many favors. Players aspiring for more won’t find all they desire at the Parisian club.

Meaning that the chances of him moving on from PSG are a lot better than his chances of moving on from Madrid. And by the time he is ready for that ‘next step’ Arsenal will have returned to the top of the pile in England, won the Champions League and established themselves as one of the top teams in the footballing world yet again.

Trust me.

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The only real question is if whoever comes after Arsene Wenger will have the same fondness for Mbappe as his predecessor. But then again, how could they not?