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Aurelien Tchouameni<\/strong><\/p>\n Aurelien Tchouameni\u00a0said\u00a0Kylian Mbappe\u00a0tried to convince him to sign for\u00a0Paris Saint-Germain,\u00a0but understood his decision to move to\u00a0Real Madrid.<\/p>\n Madrid\u00a0confirmed the acquisition of Tchouameni last week\u00a0from\u00a0AS Monaco\u00a0in a deal worth an initial \u20ac80 million, with sources confirming to ESPN the European champions saw off competition from PSG and\u00a0Liverpool\u00a0to land the midfielder.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Mbappe himself turned down interest from Madrid earlier in the summer to renew his contract with PSG, but he could not convince his\u00a0France\u00a0teammate to do the same.<\/p>\n \u201cKylian decided to stay at PSG and he knew I was leaving Monaco,\u201d Tchouameni said at his presentation as a Madrid player on Tuesday.<\/p>\n \u201cHe wanted to know if I would join him at PSG. But my first choice was Real Madrid and he understood that completely.\u201d<\/p>\n Tchouameni, 22, has signed a six-year contract at the Santiago Bernabeu and said that despite interest from PSG and Liverpool, he was sold on Madrid from the start.<\/p>\n \u201cI had the chance to choose other teams but once I knew Real Madrid were interested, I did not have a single doubt,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n \u201cI spoke with other clubs but in my head I was always waiting for Madrid. I spoke with my agent, my family and [Monaco] to find the best agreement for everyone.<\/p>\n \u201cMadrid are the biggest club in the world, they have a team with incredible players and I think it\u2019s the best decision for me.\u201d<\/p>\n Tchouameni watched excitedly as his new club, who also won LaLiga this past season, dramatically knocked out PSG,\u00a0Chelsea\u00a0and\u00a0Manchester City\u00a0on the path to a 14th European Cup.<\/p>\n \u201cThere were already negotiations with Madrid at that stage,\u201d he said of watching those knockout ties.<\/p>\n \u201cThen when I saw the games against PSG, Chelsea and City, I wrote to people saying: \u2018Please, do what you can so that I can go to Real Madrid!’\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Aurelien Tchouameni Aurelien Tchouameni\u00a0said\u00a0Kylian Mbappe\u00a0tried to convince him to sign for\u00a0Paris Saint-Germain,\u00a0but understood his decision to move to\u00a0Real Madrid. Madrid\u00a0confirmed the acquisition of Tchouameni last week\u00a0from\u00a0AS Monaco\u00a0in a deal worth an initial \u20ac80 million, with sources confirming to ESPN the European champions saw off competition from PSG and\u00a0Liverpool\u00a0to land the midfielder. \u00a0 Mbappe himself […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1122806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[4155,555,4564,4657],"class_list":["post-1122803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-mbappe","tag-real","tag-snub","tag-wanted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}