{"id":21206,"date":"2026-07-25T07:18:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T07:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=21206"},"modified":"2026-07-25T07:18:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T07:18:03","slug":"florentino-perezs-promise-agent-kylian-mbappe-are-real-madrid-really-about-to-make-michael-olise-the-most-expensive-signing-in-football-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=21206","title":{"rendered":"Florentino Perez&#8217;s promise &#038; agent Kylian Mbappe: Are Real Madrid really about to make Michael Olise the most expensive signing in football history?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\">\n<div>\n<p><span>The reality, then, is that this is a transfer that is highly unlikely to happen this summer, despite what some would have you believe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Real Madrid haven&#8217;t spent more than \u20ac100m on a player since signing Jude Bellingham from Borussia Dortmund three years ago, instead <\/span><span>focusing on shrewd deals like the free transfers for Mbappe<\/span><span>Trent Alexander-Arnold and, most recently, Bernardo Silva and Ibrahima Konate. A \u20ac200m+ move for Olise, then, would be a significant departure from that policy, despite Perez&#8217;s bullish promise during his re-election campaign. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When you combine the astronomical fee required with the fact that Olise isn&#8217;t publicly angling for a move and Bayern have no intention of doing business with Real or anyone else, then it becomes pretty clear that this is a non-starter. Indeed, according to <\/span><i><em>The Athletic<\/em><\/i><span>behind closed doors at the Bernabeu there is an acceptance that a switch this summer is &#8216;not feasible&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>You can never rule out Real Madrid when it comes to springing a major surprise in the transfer market, but it&#8217;s clear that Olise is off the table for the time being, at least.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reality, then, is that this is a transfer that is highly unlikely to happen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}