5 players Real Madrid may target this summer

#3 Kylian Mbappe

Mbappe is arguably the hottest entity in world football right now.

Kylian Mbappe's ability is way ahead of his young age. This fact, more and more people are starting to acknowledge as he tears the best defences in the world to shreds at will. The Frenchman's prodigious talent has already won him a World Cup with France and multiple league titles and trophies at club level. Thanks to the enormous talent he has, he is a constant presence—and one of the first names to be called—in the starting lineups of both his club and country.

Much like Hazard and Neymar, Mbappe was also close to joining Real Madrid in the past. In 2017, after his breakthrough with AS Monaco, Los Blancos were negotiating with the French club to bring him to Madrid. However, Mbappe, over the uncertainty of receiving first-team minutes, chose to join league rivals PSG in a deal worth a whopping total of 180 mil euros.

Much like his compatriot, Neymar, Mbappe too has a fan in the Real Madrid President. In a recent conference, Perez—when asked about whom he preferred between Neymar and Mbappe—answered "both", openly hinting at a possibility of pinning down both the PSG stars for his team in a single transfer window. However, these two are arguably the two most expensive players in world football and would require Madrid to shell out a crazy amount of money to make the moves happen.

Highlighting the French speedster's importance in the team, Jose Mourinho, in a press conference, labeled Mbappe as "unbuyable" and "inaccessible"—a clear assessment that PSG would be reluctant to sell him no matter what the price being offered is. For this deal to materialise, Real Manager Zidane may have to make use of his French connection besides loads of money obviously.