Saudi Pro League side Al Hilal have made a $333m bid to sign Kylian Mbappe from PSG.
The 24-year-old French striker has just one year left on his contract with the French champions and has been strongly linked with a move to Real Madrid.
However, Saudi Pro League side Al Hilal have made the world record bid to sign the player on world record wages.
Kylian Mbappe to Saudi Arabia transfer
Since he refused to sign a contract extension with PSG, the French side are looking to offload their prize asset rather than risk losing him for free next year when he is out of contract.
The previous record for a football transfer was the $257m PSG paid to Barcelona for Neymar in 2017.
Mbappe was left out of PSG’s pre-season tour of Japan and South Korea as the player and club are in a stand-off since the prolific striker declared he would not renew his contract at the end of the year.
It leaves PSG in the position of having to sell the player to another side or lose him for no fee in the summer of 2024.
PSG President Nasser al Khelaifi has decided to put Mbappe up for sale rather than risk losing him all together without compensation.
Al Hilal are ready to pounce and have made the world record bid to bring the player, considered by many to be the best in the world and in his prime, to the rapidly changing Saudi Pro League.
The club are willing to offer a world-record salary and even structure a deal that could see Mbappe move to Real Madrid in a year’s time.
Al Hilal are one of four teams owned by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) in the Kingdom’s top flight league.
The club has already invested heavily in top playing talent from the European leagues, having already added Rúben Neves, Sergej Milinkovic-Savic and Kalidou Koulibaly to the playing squad.
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