{"id":619461,"date":"2026-09-18T00:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T00:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/619461\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T00:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T00:48:09","slug":"here-i-am-and-very-happy-kylian-mbappe-reveals-florentino-perez-stayed-in-contact-for-10-years-before-finally-bringing-him-to-real-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/619461\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Here I am, and very happy!&#8217; &#8211; Kylian Mbappe reveals Florentino Perez stayed in contact for 10 years before finally bringing him to Real Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mbappe has finally pulled back the curtain on the long-running saga that led him to the Santiago Bernabeu, revealing that Real Madrid president Perez maintained a relationship with him for an entire decade before the deal was struck. The French forward, speaking in a candid interview wit <a href=\"https:\/\/as.com\/futbol\/primera\/para-pertenecer-a-la-historia-del-futbol-tienes-que-jugar-en-el-madrid-f202609-n\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AS<\/a>, highlighted the personal role Perez played in navigating the complexities of his career path.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s the one who brought me here. We&#8217;ve stayed in touch for ten years before I arrived,&#8221; Mbappe explained. &#8220;He always showed affection and understanding in the context of every decision made, both positive and negative for Real Madrid. He always told me that one day I would play for Real Madrid, and here I am, and very happy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The French forward&#8217;s appreciation for the Madrid chief was further echoed in social media circles, where he was quoted saying, &#8220;I was in contact with Perez since 10 years before joining Real Madrid.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mbappe has finally pulled back the curtain on the long-running saga that led him to the Santiago Bernabeu,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,84274,18617,4029,105],"class_list":["post-619461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-k-mbappe","tag-laliga","tag-real-madrid","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}