Kylian Mbappe is one of the world’s best players, and he showcased tremendous promise from his teenage years.
The Frenchman made his breakthrough with the AS Monaco senior side as a teenager, drawing interest from the best clubs across the continent when he was just 17.
One of those clubs was Arsenal, and Arsene Wenger personally visited the attacker in France, even arranging a tour of the Arsenal stadium for Mbappe. However, the move failed to materialize, and former Arsenal scout Gilles Grimandi has now revealed why they couldn’t secure the deal.
While working on the transfer, Arsenal also had the small matter of a North London derby to prepare for, and they were not in good form during that period.
Grimandi said, as quoted by The Sun:
“We tried to convince him before.
“We met his parents in London who came to the training ground and alongside Arsene and Richard Law we travelled to meet Kylian in the South of France.
“We tried to convince him, but I don’t think it was the best time for us; that meeting took place the day after we’d just lost to Swansea at home in the league, which itself followed a defeat at Old Trafford and I remember we had a big game away just three days later against Tottenham, so the timing was not ideal.
“We tried, and I really don’t think we were far from getting him, but he declined the project and signed a new deal with Monaco.”
Just Arsenal Opinion
Mbappe has become a world-class player and it would have been terrific to have had him in our squad over the last few seasons.
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Gilles Grimandi revelation on the role that Tottenham Hs had played in Arsenal missing out on the signing of Klyan Mbappe at one time in the past. I am afraid cannot help Arsenal now.
For, the matter has since become history. But from which Arsenal can learn from the incident to not allow a repeat of such failing to happen to them again in their future transfer dealings.
Nevertheless, what i think SHOULD be of immediate importance and very serious concern to Arsenal now. Is how they will bounce back from their unexpected Epl home defeat against West Ham last night and return to the winning way staring with their away Epl match to Fulham.
So that they can stay on course for the Premier League title win this season. But not miss out on winning it this season as they did last season. When they missed out on winno it to Man City.
So therefore, let Arteta do everything within his power to make sure the Gunners do not only win the Epl title this season, but as well win the treble too.
And since there is still time left for him to make the necessary adjustments to his Gunners team. Let him try by all means to make the adjustments to his team. By using the upcoming winter transfer window to make the adjustments and make them very properly.
So that the Gunners will not fall to win the treble of titles this season. But win them all unfailingly.
You. can hardly blame Spurs for this, as they had no part in the negotiations, and we’d not even played them at that point. Mbappe made the wise move, for someone of his age, to stay in France and eventually join PSG.
If he’d come to Arsenal he would have broken all PL goal scoring records.