Paris Saint-Germain have secured the ­signature of Kylian Mbappe for a transfer fee that is set to exceed the record £200m they paid for Neymar less than a fortnight ago. According to sources familiar with the negotiations, the Qatar-owned club are to spend an initial £173m on buying Mbappe’s registration from AS Monaco. However, a series of performance-related bonuses secured by Monaco from their direct domestic rivals will push Mbappe’s fee beyond the £200m release clause PSG deployed to extract Neymar from ­Barcelona.

The Parisians’ capture of Mbappe has created a headache for Real Madrid, who believed they had secured the teenage striker. Madrid’s commitment to beating Manchester City and PSG for Mbappe’s signature was such that they had placed Gareth Bale on the market