THE second he entered Real Madrid’s training centre as a 14-year-old he knew this was where he wanted to be one day.
He’d been invited to try out for the team, and for the teen setting foot on the grass of Valdebebas Park it was a lightbulb moment.
Real was his future, he decided – yet it would take several years and a lot of tough negotiation before Kylian Mbappé was signed by the glamour club.
And when the gifted 25-year-old forward recently confirmed his move from Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) it concluded one of the longest transfer sagas in recent history.
There’d been plenty of speculation that Mbappé would be joining the club
