'Mbappe would have come to Barcelona'; what stopped the move?

A former Blaugrana executive revealed that there were serious approaches to sign Mbappe before he became a star of world football

After the Russia 2018 World Cup,Kylian Mbappe, became one of the most coveted players in world football, and since then his fate has become one of the most covered stories in the European football press.

However, a new revelation suggests that when he was still a promising youngster at Monaco, there were talks with Barcelona about a possible move. Something that, had it come to fruition, would have completely changed the competition between the most powerful football teams in the Old Continent.

Javier Bordas, who worked in the Blaugrana board during the administrations of Sandro Rosell and Josep Maria Bartomeu revealed to 'El Chiringuito' how these approaches occurred, in the now distant 2017, which would have brought Mbappe to La Masia with Leo Messi, Andrs Iniesta and Neymar.

«If I had been in charge, Mbappe would have played for Bara,» he said of the possibility of signing Mbappe in the summer of 2017 and ended up signing for PSG. Barca, meanwhile, landed the stellar signing of Ney, in exchange for 222 million euros ($239 million).

Mbappe would have arrived in Catalonia for a considerably lower figure, and had even spoken to his father about the possible signing and this had the manager very optimistic.

Bordas said he would have preferred Mbappe to Neymar, who in turn was replaced by Ousmane Dembele for 135 million euros ($145 million). In the end the team lost all these names from their squad and since then, they have not had a name of this calibre to keep them among the most competitive in Europe and, in a roundabout way, opened the door for Real Madrid's lengthy negotiation to sign the