The Frenchman is trending at the moment as his saga continues at PSG.
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00:00 Michael, just on the trending man at the moment, Kylian Mbappe, obviously, you know, there's a huge transfer saga.
00:07 His end goal is probably going to be Real Madrid in the next coming year or so.
00:11 But in terms of United, is there sort of any interest there?
00:15 Can you see that ever working if he was to join?
00:18 How big would that be for both the player and the club?
00:21 Yeah, look, it's obviously a very quickly evolving situation.
00:27 I won't claim to have a huge amount of knowledge of what is happening from the Mbappe camp,
00:34 but you can piece together enough of it from reports elsewhere.
00:38 And look, it certainly seems like there's plenty of interest in him, understandably so.
00:43 He is one of the world's, if not the best player in the world, one of the best players in the world.
00:48 And I think from a United perspective, look, I mean, I think the first thing to say is they are desperate for a new number nine.
00:53 I think if they got offered Mbappe and they could make it happen, they would, of course, be interested in that.
00:59 You know, why wouldn't they? Why wouldn't any club?
01:01 Although I do think there's a little bit of baggage that comes with Mbappe.
01:05 I mean, all the talk seems to be that he wants to be a Real Madrid player this time in 12 months.
01:09 So, I mean, is there any possibility that he goes on loan to Manchester United for 12 months?
01:14 I don't know.
01:15 I certainly saw a few reports discussing that PSG would be open to a loan.
01:21 I think that seems like the most likely way United could do something.
01:24 You know, this talk of 250 odd million or whatever it was, the offer from Saudi Arabia, United aren't going to be able to come anywhere near that.
01:32 I mean, they are at the moment kind of ominous about whether to pay 67, 60 or 70 million for Rasmus Hoyland.
01:40 They're just not going to be able to afford Mbappe plus wages as well.
01:44 So I think personally, a long term expense of transfer seems very unlikely.
01:49 I think the only way it could happen is if there's some form of short term loan.
01:53 And yeah, but if I'm totally honest, I think it looks very unlikely at this stage.