Tchouameni said no to 12 million euros a season from PSG

While Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool had been lingering around Aurelien Tchouameni for weeks, Kylian Mbappe's Paris Saint-Germain stepped into the picture in the latter stages of his negotiations with Real Madrid, and then everything accelerated.

The striker tried unsuccessfully to entice the midfielder while playing for the French national team. Tchouameni, though, always seemed to know what he was doing, as the new Real Madrid star has proved.

First, he turned down an unattractive offer, and then he declined Mbappe's invitation to join him in Paris.

PSG, in an attempt to put together a competitive team and make life difficult for Real Madrid. made an offer to the midfielder of 12 million euros net per season, well above the sum that Los Blancos have put on the table to sign the player for the next six seasons.

Between six to seven million euros

Without officially declaring the amount of the player's wage, as is customary at Real Madrid, reports suggest that it will be between six and seven million euros for each of the signed campaigns, roughly half of what PSG offered.

Tchouameni has put his aspirations over money. He was not a Madridista as a child, but he has made it abundantly clear that the sporting challenge takes precedence over financial motivations for him.