Kylian Mbappé

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!It will not have escaped your attention that we here at Big Website are true football hipsters. Football Daily was into gegenpressing in the nascent days of Ralf Rangnick; we bought a Napoli shirt in the pre-mohawk Marek Hamsik era and, as we hammered Premier Manager for 18 hours straight, we drank fluorescent orange fruit beers before they showed up in any pub with a dodgy firestick. When it comes to assessing the transfer scene of summer 24, then, it’s the B-side deals that really wet our whistle, not the chart-toppers. So you can keep your Kylian Mbappés, your Endricks and even your Leny Yoros (sorry, Manchester United, but signing a generational teenager wanted by Real Madrid and paying £50m for the privilege hasn’t flown under anyone’s radar). Where are the bargains?Seeing Héctor Vivas’s composite image of players in yesterday’s Football Daily (full email edition), I couldn’t help but be reminded of the madness of Joseba Etxeberria’s testimonial for Athletic Bilbao” – Robert Morgan.I was at that match snapped by Héctor Vivas and the photo is a lot more exciting than sitting through the actual 90 minutes was” – Jim Hearson. Continue reading...

After a transfer more than a decade in the making, the France forward was ‘one happy guy’ at his unveiling“Good afternoon everyone. I’m going to try to speak Spanish.” Unsurprisingly for a transfer that has been more than a decade in the making, Kylian Mbappé came prepared. It was at Monaco – not long after he had been charmed by Zinedine Zidane on a visit to Real Madrid’s training ground just before his 14th birthday – that the talented teenager had started taking Spanish lessons in anticipation of this moment. And now, finally, it had arrived.“It’s such an incredible feeling to be here, just incredible,” said Mbappé after he was eventually introduced at a packed Santiago Bernabéu stadium on Tuesday by Florentino Pérez. “I spent endless nights dreaming about one day playing for Real Madrid, and today I’m one happy guy.” Continue reading...

Nearly 80,000 fans welcomed 25-year-old France star Kylian Mbappé during his official presentation as a Real Madrid player. After signing his five-year contract with the Spanish powerhouse alongside club president Florentino Pérez, Mbappé entered the stage set up at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium to loud cheers. Continue reading...

Latest transfers and club-by-club guides for every team in Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Ligue 1 and Serie AWomen’s transfers 2024: all the moves in top five leaguesAfter financial fair play concerns stifled the January transfer market, what is the outlook for this summer? One club who have already strengthened are Real Madrid. The European champions have signed Kylian Mbappé on a free (but with a €125m signing bonus going to the player), while Brazilian sensation Endrick will join up with Carlo Ancelotti’s side this summer, 18 months after a deal was agreed with Palmeiras.There have been coaching changes at several European heavyweight clubs already this summer. Vincent Kompany (Bayern Munich), Hansi Flick (Barcelona), Arne Slot (Liverpool), Enzo Maresca (Chelsea), Antonio Conte (Napoli) and Juventus’s incoming new manager, Thiago Motta, will all surely be planning to spend money on reshaping their squads. Continue reading...