Robert Pires has revealed his decision to choose a move to Arsenal over Real Madrid and has advised Kylian Mbappe to follow suit by turning down the Spanish club.
It is widely anticipated that the French striker will make a move to La Liga in the summer after a prolonged period of mutual interest between the player and Real Madrid.
Real is poised to sign him as a free agent once his contract with PSG expires, putting an end to years of speculation.
While Mbappe is undoubtedly one of the best players in the world, his potential move to Real Madrid may require adjustments within the team, particularly considering Vinicius Junior currently occupies a similar role to Mbappe.
While it’s a dream for many players to don the Real Madrid jersey, Pires has urged Mbappe to reject their advances, drawing from his own experience of turning down the Spanish giants in favour of Arsenal.
The Arsenal icon told AS:
‘I’m sorry, Kylian, but you weren’t the first player to say no to Real Madrid.
‘I don’t know what decision he will make in the end, but I turned Madrid down because I had two other options. I’m sure that if I didn’t have the opportunity of going to Arsenal or Juventus I would have gone to Real Madrid. That’s for sure’.
Just Arsenal Opinion
Pires had his reasons for turning down Madrid for us and Mbappe has his reasons for wanting to move to Madrid.
We are not in the running to sign him, so his decisions about his future do not concern us.
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Yes! I quite agree totally with the JustArsenal opinion on this subject matter. In which Robert Pires, the former Arsenal top midfielder has expressed his personal opinion on the issue of the possibility of Kylian Mbappe joining Real Madrid next summer on the free from PSG.
But Pires has not told us the reason for his preference to join Arsenal over Real Madrid.
One man’s poison could be another man’s sweet food. If Mbappe does join Real Madrid next summer. Which could benefit Arsenal if RM offload one of their top quality player to balance the books. And Arsenal could sign the offloaded player if they want him. But not Cebalos
True, he didn’t say the reason.
I have often wondered why so many players go there. It’s a graveyard for a lot of good players who end up warming the bench, but it takes a lot of maturity and a player having awareness of their own abilities and limitations to see that.
Pires might be one of those – but as you say Samuel, we can’t tell from what was quoted above.
RM would not offload in cheap. Whether they offload Vicinus or Rodrygo, both would cost a lot hell of money. So RM would be getting 100mil plus to bring the most coveted player in the world. But if Mbappe does manage to come to Arsenal, then they would be perenial premier league and champions league challenger for sure as we all know what is missing piece of jigsaw in Arsenal at present. But sadly it wont happen as Mbappe has already ruled out Arsenal transfer.
And yeah, Arsenal should have no interest in Mbappe.
He has an ego and Arteta’s squad is built on team spirit. He had to let go a few egos to get to where he is.
It should be obvious to more people which player is going to be good for a club and who will be a bad influence.
When Aubameyang turned up saying “Never fear, Auba is here” I remember thinking “This will not end well”.
The one who was a surprise to me was Ozil though. He seemed a dedicated pro until he changed completely after a while.
@Neutral: Important observation
Mbape is a great player for sure. But to me, he’s not groomed for Arsenal. He’s Real Madrid material. He’s got too much ego and we won’t be interested in the size of attention attention that he might bring along. He may not easily culturally
Besides, he’s likely to be unreasonably expensive of fees and wages.
Thanks Pires for your efforts, but let’s just wish the Brother the best where he fits best!!
Robbie Pires was a fabulous player and a massive Gunner for life.
Shame his last game was in the Champions League final in 2006 when he had to be taken off early when Jens Lehman got sent off.