When Chelsea Miss a Golden Opportunity to Recruit Mbappe

Kylian Mbappe is one of the brightest young talents today. As well as being an important player in France's success at the 2018 World Cup, Mbappe is also able to compete with the star who is one team with him, Neymar Jr.

In fact, you could say that the shine of the Brazilian player lost to the genius of Kylian Mbappe. Because he continues to make extraordinary records at a very young age.

Most recently, or in December 2019, Mbappe proved himself that he was tracing the stars of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Even in terms of scoring the fastest 100 goals, Mbappe has outperformed the two seniors.

When he scored one goal against Galatasaray, when PSG won 5-0, Mbappe even scored his 100th goal in his career. That means, Kylian Mbappe managed to score his 100th goal at the age of 20 years 358 days. This outperformed the nicks of Messi and Ronaldo at that age.

Mbappe's career has indeed shot off like a meteor. Playing at his first club, AS Monaco, he managed to score a total of 27 goals.

Moving to PSG in 2018, Kylian Mbappe managed to score a total of 73 goals until the last duel in the Champions League group stage against Galatasaray.

The incision is clearly a signal that he will follow the careers of Messi and Ronaldo in the next 10 years. Regarding the number of goals, Messi and Ronaldo did not reach 100 goals at the age of 20. Messi scored his 100th career goal on 16 January 2010 against Sevilla. At that time, he was 22 years and six months old. Meanwhile, Ronaldo scored 100 goals on 27 January 2008 at the age of 22 years 11 months.

With his current glory, it is only natural that Kylian Mbappe is being contested by big European clubs. When he was officially brought to Parc de Prince in 2017, Mbappe, who was then 18 years old, was valued at 180 million euros or the equivalent of 2.8 trillion rupiah.

The previous season, when he was still in AS Monaco uniform, Mbappe had already shown his class. He scored 26 goals and 11 assists in 44 appearances in all competitions and was instrumental in Monaco's success in winning Ligue One.

But do you know if Mbappe had the opportunity to join Chelsea?

Mbappe is known to be a big Chelsea fan. He was even willing to ask for a photo with Didier Drogba in the match against FC Barcelona in the Champions League competition in 2009.

However, the request was rejected because Drogba thought that the match was not worthy of being watched by a child. This means that Drogba does not want Mbappe to take photos with him in controversial moments.

Then in the end the request was fulfilled by the attacker from Ivory Coast, after the two met at a 2019 Ballon D'or award ceremony.

When Mbappe was at the age of 14, he had done trials at Chelsea. This happened in 2012. It is said that Mbappe was rejected by the London club.

This was revealed by the former Blues talent guide, Serge Daniel Boga.

“Chelsea were the first to give Mbappe a trial opportunity. We did it before Real Madrid. I took him with his family. He's skilled, just like now, "

"He played against Charlton and won 7-0. After a week at Chelsea we went to the office. Management said, "Look, we appreciate what we saw from Mbappe, but we have to invite him back for more trials and we'll see after that,"

After learning about this, Daniel Boga explained that Mbappe's mother felt unacceptable. The mother told Chelsea that it was the right time to bring Mbappe, if indeed they were serious about securing his services.

His mother then added that if they didn't bring Mbappe right away, then the player would never return to London again. If they come back, the price will be around 50 million euros.

Boga also convinced his mother to give Mbappe permission to take a second trial with Chelsea. However, the request was ignored. The mother immediately took Mbappe to AS Monaco.

The opportunity to recruit Mbappe was wasted. Even though Mbappe himself said that Chelsea is a very great team. He even had many extraordinary experiences there.

"This is the most beautiful experience for me. Chelsea was the first big team I went to, "said Mbappe (via The Sun)

There is one of the most memorable experiences for Mbappe while in England, which is helping Chelsea U-12 win big in a match. Namely the game against Charlton with a score of 7-0, exactly as what the former Chelsea scout said.

After becoming a star at AS Monaco, Mbappe continued his glory in the capital team.

When he officially joined PSG, Mbappe even thought that Chelsea was a team that impressed him very much.