This is all psg fault when they rejected that 200 million offer from Real Madrid in 2021 when he had 1 year left and wanted to leave at the time

I love the "don't feel sorry for PSG" section, I think it summarises the genuine feeling of every football fan. The sooner the Nations states get banned from the sport, the fairer the competitions will get.

Really liked this style Jim with the timeline of events of a players career, the editing reminded me the Last Dance documentary. Do more of these!

Mbappe has played PSG plain and simple. PSG let him become bigger than the club and they're paying the price for it. The money and the general mismanagement involved in this situation is simply pathetic

This is great analysis on the Mbappe saga. Clearly we are in an age when players now have the power with these bespoke contracts and very savvy (and greedy) agents.

It's great editing, but I would say, turn the background music down a little. It's overpowering James's audio a little too much, taking away from the points being made.

Hi James, cheers brother! Thank you for this. I love the documentary style video, more of this please! All the best to you and the fam.

This new style of video is great! The editing, the music, the content of the video, excited to see more of this in the upcoming season!

Great video Jimbo really enjoyed it

Just discovered this channel as it appeared in my recommended. Love the vibe, love the content! New sub!

Last two videos been so good mate, love the format

I think we’ll look back on Mbappe’s decision making as a change in the tide for football. Player power is at an all time high, and I think it’ll only get considerably stronger if the Saudi league holds strong. Players will be able to hold European clubs to ransom over salaries with the threat of leaving. I also think that the Saudi league leads to a reformed super league which opens the door to a more global competition backed pretty much entirely by nation states… football is not gonna be the same again!

I love this style video. The comeback is killer!!!!! Let’s go Jimbo I’m here for it

Like most of the comments I also love this new style of video. The storytelling, the analysis, the thumbnails and titles, and the editing style all very similar to Johnny Harris but with football, I love to see it

Actually just buzzing to see your videos back regularly again! Up the Mbappaslug

Smashed it mate! Quality Drop

love this form of content, informative yet still engaging. very well put together

Incredible, compelling analysis! I loved how you not only explained the Mbappé saga, but also linked it to the broader patterns that have developed in the financial geopolitics of world football. What about solutions? What do you think of German style 50+1? If global football governing bodies cared, they could exclude any player who plays in a country that doesn’t have a well-regulated football ecosystem with something like 50+1 from international tournaments like the World Cup. That would make setups that facilitate sports-washing less attractive.

Really into this style of presentation. Keep it up!

Mbappe the symbol of sports washing

Great stuff!!! Love it!

These videos are so so good. On the point of money. I genuinely think that this football money bubble is going to pop quite soon and it is going to be quite a sight

Great content James, thank you !!

Keep the design of these videos. Really good.

“It’s fine she doesn’t watch the content” 😂

Love this , dont know about anybody else. But i would love to see this with more big name transfers , maybe even historical ones💙♥️

Bro thanks for great content... whats the brand & details of your spectacles? Thanks Mate.

could you do a in depth video on the situation with saudi in modern football

Great video pleasantly surprised

Cheers for clearing everything up, I heard he was off to Tottenham!

Mbappe saga , really a fascinationg serie, great screenplay: Soon the next episode.

Mbappe has been allowed to feel invincible and bigger than any club because he's been viewed by PSG (and Qatar) as such an invaluable asset. It would be interesting to see him at Madrid, just to see if his attitude shifts and he recognises that the club is bigger than him or if he still feels this invincibility because he knows how Real shifted their entire transfer policy for years to get him and always has a Saudi Arabia move to use as a threat against them to get his way.

Power to the players! Well done from Mbappe. "football careers are short, the rest of your life is important". He has every right to walk away at the end of his contract, PSG fans should be upset with their hierarchy and no one else. 👌

i think that Super League sound bite at the end will make a reappearance in the not-so-distant future, but boy i hope im wrong.

The guy just rejected a 700M deal in order to compete in the UCL so he deserves huge respect.

City signing Haaland for less than 100m even accounting for add-ons and whatever ridiculous wages he ends up with really is the deal of the century, idc how many people will find this annoying or repetitive.

Some constructive feedback here Jim... the new editing is impressive and the videos are great quality. However, I feel this new style is less personal with the way you are narrating the storylines. It feels like you are not talking to your fans like you have last season etc. As a big fan of yours, it is a little bit weird... the most accurate analogy I can think of is when you have a teacher at school who has a great vibe and you enjoy their lessons. Then, when OFSTED come round, they act a little bit different, a bit more cold, professional and direct, and it's weird. This is just my opinion! Take it or leave it. The video quality and editing is to be admired for sure and if that's your goal then that's great! I would just add that in general, I imagine that your fans watch your content because they get that personal sense of connection watching your stuff as you are very charismatic with great interpersonal skills. In my experience, these new-style videos take away from these qualities of yours. Making it easier to click off the video. Don't forget what makes your content special Jim - not the video editing, not the knowledge (although ball knowledge on point) - but you as a person.

I have an idea for the ripple effect Ireland could have won the euros or world cup 1.players like rice kane grealish all being eligible for Ireland 2. Roy keane falling out with the manager causing him to stay out of the team that made it to the round of 16 3. Irelands current bloom of youngsters all being sabotaged by the ifa

Where the music used at 13:00

I don’t get why clubs would want to force their players to stay. If they wanna leave, let them leave. The heart and desire is not there anymore. Won’t do both parties good anyway.

Love the video. You haven’t been popping up on my feed lately, great to watch you again.

These new videos are very high quality. Idk who edits them but very well done

1. People still see man city as the bad guys. 2. The super league will eventually happen. 3. The glazers were never selling united...

This might be the greatest KZfaq video of all time ❤

The 🐐is back ❤

Crazy that Pivot Gang was originally a rap collective from the Westside of Chicago

Honestly at this point I hope Mbappe discovers a new-found passion for collecting rocks and quits football so we don't have to hear the same stuff every single summer

It wasnt a star studded squad, cos Bernaro, Fabinho and the rest were all still unknowns

They deserve each other

The most fascinating thing is that in today’s game we try and tell ourselves that no player should be bigger than their club but I honestly think he is. He has been the best player in the world for 4 years arguably and PSG is only the highly-regarded club it is because of Mbappe

I think that PSG are behaving unprofessionally. Mbappe pretty clearly wanted to goto Real Madrid last year but PSG blocked the sale, and he signed a contract extension. The reason it was for two years was very obviously because Mbappe was unwilling to sign on for any longer than that. PSG went so far as to get President Macron involved in negotiations essentially guilting the young frenchman into staying. Mbappe proceeds to act in a professional manner scoring loads of goals for the club and besides not being willing to track back on defense, fulfills every professional obligation. At the beginning of the summer, he notifies the club early that he won't be extending his contract. PSG lose their shit saying things like they "expected" Mbappe to sign another extension, they "assume" he already has an agreement in place with Real for next summer. So they expected and assumed. And when he refuses to sign another extension (that would just put him back in the exact same situation next summer) the club decides to punish a player who has scored more goals for the club than anyone by excluding him from playing football. If Tottenham behaved in a similar fashion with Harry Kane, people would say Daniel Levy is behaving like a lunatic. Harry Kane has already refused to sign an extension. Imagine if Spurs refused to let him play for a year to punish him for not doing what he was told? I'm sure being a teenage millionaire has warped Mbappe's ego. But he has generally behaved like a professional. This all has to do with Nasser Al Khelaifi's and the executive team at PSG egos with perhaps a dose of animosity and envy towards Real Madrid. Right now, from where I am sitting, it is PSG leadership that are behaving like entitled brats.

Hey James, love your content and your eloquence. Well the way I see it is that Mbappe is just treating psg the same way they treated him in 2021 when he told them before the euros that he wants to leave and join Madrid and that psg should accept to recoup money, psg acted dumb and blind and never responded to Madrid. Fast forward to the end of the 21/22 season psg resorted to political pressure of the highest order using the French president and the emir of Qatar to force mbappe into signing the extension and what proves that was Mbappe letter of not renewing the additional year which was literally right after he signed the new 2+1 deal. Which literally screams out that he was under immense political pressure into taking that deal especially since Qatar was hosting the World Cup.

lol i see a sir james lawrence video i click

Don't forget PSG signed Mbappe on 12 months loan to start with because they could afford to pay his transfer fee that year. For me they "screwed-up" by giving Mbappe the contract with so much power and an option of 3rd year if he wanted it. The only solution to save face for both sides would be a world record transfer to Saudi. He signs a £600m per year contract but with a £250m release clause that activates after 12 months. He plays in Saudi for season then either he or Real Madrid pay the release clause and he gets his move to Real Madrid as planned.

It’s pretty freaking easy to fix it every single American professional team has a salary cap they can only spend so much money per team to make it fair just like F1 racing every car is gonna be the same

I think where most fascinating about the Saudi bid and the only little thing missing from this vid is that the power IS STILL IN MBAPPE’S HANDS. After all these years, after a world record bid that has been accepted (of course it has it was always gonna be), and after one of the most horrifying contracts ever… mbappe still has the power. He can still just refuse the contract. Will he? I’m not sure. It’s only a year, it’s insane money, and he gets to go to Real Madrid for free next summer like he planned. It’s just interesting that even after all of this, it’s still up to him. He can still wait for Madrid. And to me that’s a good thing. Clubs shouldn’t be allowed to dictate a persons entire career. These are people not commodities

when benzema leaves. I was told mbappe called Madrid and the operation starts.

Mbappe didnt coin 'Pivot Gang'

Let's not pretend Real Madrid, Barca, Bayern, Man City, PSG are any different to the Saudi league.

The GOAT of oil money! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

No worries James, I had no intentions of going to the PSG games, they are wildly overpriced even compared to watching Barca or Man City apparently and watching the latter two was more fun anyways A am slighly disappointed though to miss tomorrowa game between Bayern and City

22 Euros per second that's insane!!

Mbappe didn't do anything, his agent team did, just like with the Figo barça-real transfer, the executive people do the maneuvers and the player agrees or disagrees, good agent team he has, they took as much money they could from psg lol.

One of the amusing articles i read online is this.... "PSG expect Chelsea to come with an offer for Mbappe." My guy, 😂. Even Boehly doesn't drink cactus juice that concentrated. 😅 You expect. Ok. You keep expecting

No one I'd rather listen to explaining this mad world we're in. Only forwards

Players should have the power.

Just thinking aloud, what if all this is actually a plan by Florentino Pérez. Mbappe was forced to stay at PSG in 2022, the pressure was from countries and the leaders of those countries. So, Perez made a masterplan to bring Mbappe to Madrid this summer and Mbappe is just playing it out for everyone. 🤷🏽‍♂️

He’s a young kid from Paris giving the Qatari state the run around, how can you not love it

Mbappe literally said he sent them a little 2 month after he renewed that he won't trigger the 1 year deal So none of this is his fault

Wijneldum LOL

Mom is his agent. She is a very proud woman and definitely instilled it in her son. The aim is too not let PSG profit from him any longer and transfer for free next year as a spit in the face. Also next year Real Madrid may have the financial cieling to shower Mbappe with a signing bonus near that of the RSL offer currently on the table. I honestly think he doesn't want PSG making a single cent more from him.

So much of this video is pure waffling

Nothing new here. Sir Alex Ferguson did this for years with Park Ji Sung and Anderson as two advanced 8.

everyone will despise mbappe for this but that’s how being a great businessman works. honestly have to rate how intelligent he is off the pitch and on it. people forget as soon as a club thinks you’re not up to it theyll have no problem shipping you out. he’s just playing the game well and respect to him for finessing these billionaires who hoard an obscene amount of wealth to begin with

Mbappé is a shrewd businessman

The funny part of all this is that most fans blame and ridicule PSG for all this, like they are the ones in the wrong

13:05 Why even blame the system, this is a fair system, it's the same everywhere no matter which industry, you sign a contract with an employer/employee for a agreed amount of time, if one party wanna terminate the contract they have to compensate the other party, why should anyone expect players to extend their contract a year or two before it is up to make their next club pay a contract fee? If the player wants to play until the end of the contract and leave as a free agent there's nothing wrong at all.

Why should it be regulated? I want to see the best possible football, with the best possible teams and players. If people have a problem with ''too much money in football'', take it up with governments, and their control over money/currencies that they can inflate at will.

I don’t blame Mbappe a single bit I cannot believe that PSG didn’t see any of this coming… They really did put themselves in this situation But also, PSG are within their right to handle this situation in the way that they are So tbh, no one is the wrong but PSG have simply shot themselves in the foot

And the guy there are trying to get out and hate the most, Neymar, will stay

PSG played themselves giving mbappe that contract. Handed him all the power with the ego to go with that, it's a deadly combination. Can't really knock mbappe for that really, he's clearly very business savvy and PSG put too much trust into him

Imagine after all this he joins Barca. One can dream can't he?

Horrid club and fan base. They're getting exactly what they deserve. Great video, love the way this channel is going. #onlyforwards

Surely he has to go, this couldn’t work out any better for him

Lucky that only PSG involved in this stupid money football. As long as the players like jude bellingham, pedri still around 100m football still saveable.

the only thing I care about is PSG taking Real Madrid to the courts in a 3-4 year long war 😂 AS MUCH CHAOS AS POSSIBLE

Money don't make my world go round, I'm reaching out to a higher ground. Des'ree (1994) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qah7nqZ729CRlH0.html&ab_channel=DesreeVEVO

Crazy how these College Graduates are being outsmarted by a supposedly high school brain. Just shows how flawed the Education System is. 😂😂😂😅😅😅❤❤

I think this is one where only PSG fans and teams that don't want Mbappe to go to Real Madrid will feel sorry for them. Everyone else is finding it ironic.

Yess

He's only able to do this because he knows RM will take him anyway.

It’s not a troll, the Saudis are literally threatening world football. They are signalling to the world that if they don’t get a seat at the table when a new Super League comes around they are going to offer so much money to the best players in the world that all the richest clubs won’t be able to compete.

No sympathy for psg, he played them like a fiddle and they let him. So fair play the him, he’s just been smart. All he’s doing right now is saying, listen; I’m going to the club I want to go to, not the club that bid the highest and lines you’re pockets. I want to be at madrid, work out a deal with them and let me go now or I’ll stay for another 12 months and go for free. (Which psg don’t want to happen) but they can’t have it both ways.

This man has all of world football by the balls

What governing body can actually do anything about this? I pray for regulations, but nothing is going to happen. Football will eventually it eat self and collapse, this kind of money is not sustainable. It’s stuff like this that makes me pleased I support a league 2 club.

This entire saga comes down to the fact that PSG was trying to big dawg the biggest fish in Real Madrid. It just shows you never actually win against them even if you’re backed by a monarchy. Cuz now we are at the point where Perez is just waiting for PSG and Nasser to swallow their pride and tuck their Qatari tails between their legs and call HIM🤣 He hasn’t forgotten them ghosting his €200m bid. This might take another couple weeks out of pure Parisian embarrassment.

PSG Ultras look away now...from a legacy perspective, the man is bigger than your club; no offense

Every player who goes to these nation state clubs with no history, just a boatload of cash, IS THERE FOR THE BOATLOAD OF CASH. Why is this suprising anyone?? Also, he is perfectly within his rights to exercise a player option or not. It was HIS decision and PSG chose to include that player option in the contract. Imagine if your boss offered you such a great deal and then suddenly changed conditions on you because you're not willing to extend your contract that still has time left on it, would you be happy about that?? He has trained professionally as always and says he's available to play because he's under contract and he wants to see it out. If PSG don't wanna play him, it's their choice, but that don't mean they can't pay him what he's contractually owed. It's been 2 years since he requested a transfer and PSG turned down 200 million two summers ago. They gave him a contract no one would refuse and are now surprised he's unwilling to end it before it's expired just to save his employer some money because they made ridiculously stupid and miscalculated business decisions?? Give me a break.

james got vox's editor??

Don’t worry, the Saudi league will fail. In another 10 years the heat will make it impossible play football outdoors.