Kylian Mbappe drops major hint about his future as Arsenal and Real Madrid monitor forward

The teenager is set to fetch more than £100m this summer if he leaves AS Monaco

Kylian Mbappe has dropped a huge hint that he will leave Monaco this summer, with Arsenal, Real Madrid, Paris Saint-Germain and Liverpool all options.

Mbappe is hot property this summer after his goals fired Monaco to the Ligue 1 title ahead of PSG, as well as the Champions League semi-finals.

And that form means the Frenchman is likely to become the world’s most expensive player should he move this summer, with Arsene Wenger hoping he can persuade Mbappe to pick the Emirates and first-team football over the Bernabeu.

But it looks certain he will now move, even though Monaco offered to increase his wages by 900 per cent, after removing any reference to the club in his Twitter bio.

It previously included that he was a Monaco player, as well as a member of the France national team and sponsored by Nike, but the 18-year-old has now removed all three references.

The alternation comes after the forward changed his cover photo to a picture of him with the word “priceless” emblazoned behind him, suggesting that he is not concerned about the money, only how he can further develop his career.

Real Madrid remain the frontrunners to sign the Frenchman, with president Florentino Perez claiming Zinedine Zidane is considering a move for him despite his age.

“Mbappe is a very good player,” Perez told esRadio. “The summer is long. Zidane has been close to him for several years. Not many players play for Real Madrid at 18 years old. We must be patient. Zidane has him in mind.

“It's not enough to say we can bring players in and then have them sitting on the bench. We are thinking about Mbappe, but his age makes it difficult to find a place.”

There have been suggestions that Mbappe sees a move to Arsenal as the ideal stepping stone in his career ahead of signing for either Barcelona or Real Madrid before he turns 22.

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Given that any move would be a significant risk for Arsenal who would expect to get a substantial increase on their investment once he moved on.

They would also have to provide substantial wages to compete with offers from the likes of Real, which is another stumbling block.

The club’s attempts to tie Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil to lucrative new contracts could force them into a wide-ranging sell-off of players this summer.

Arsenal are wary of the Premier League’s cost control measures that restrict how much a wage bill can increase year on year.

If Arsenal’s 2017-18 wage bill is more than £7m higher than it was last year, as it would be if Ozil and Sanchez signed, they would have to make up the excess through extra external revenue, most likely player sales.

Mbappe’s contract on top of this could result in one of the Gunners’ star men not being offered a new contract, or a high number of first-team players being sold instead.