For Kylian Mbappe, the lure of Real Madrid has never been greater and with one year remaining on his contract at Paris Saint-Germain and the opportunity to spearhead a revolution at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu, there is little surprise why the rumours linking him to the Spanish capital refuse to go away. However, one man who could scupper the possibility of the forward making the move is Nasser Al-Khelaifi, who has a history of taking drastic measures to get his way over key players. In the summer of 2017, after Marco Verratti tried to leave the club to join Barcelona, he made a u-turn after the club blocked the move, before proceeding to sack his agent on the club's wishes out of fear of not being allowed to play. A year later, when Adrien Rabiot made it clear that he would not sign a contract extension in December 2018, he was banished from the first team until the rest of the season, despite losing key matches such as the Champions League Round of 16 to Manchester United. Wants Mbappe to stay Al-Khelaifi is more determined than ever to keep Mbappe, as he expressed on Sunday after PSG finished runners-up in Ligue 1 to Lille. "Kylian is a PSG player, and he'll continue to be a PSG player," Al-Khelaifi said recently. The PSG president has shown in the past that he is ready to take severe measures to get his own way with key players. With Mbappe the shining light in his team, there is no doubt that he will show a similar level of stubbornness this summer, which could see the forward's dream move to Real Madrid blocked.
