If given the ability to go back in time there may be plenty of things one would change, in particular given the world as it is today, but Chelsea fans may opt to return to the moment when the Blues opted against a 20,000 euro deal for a 14-year-old Kylian Mbappe.
Now worth into the hundreds of millions, the French starlet has smashed in the goals for Monaco this season to interest the likes of Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain.
But while a teenager at his local club Bondy, playing under his father Wilfried, the talented teenager was spotted by Chelsea and the Mirror report that the Premier League outfit preferred to promote local strikers Dom Solanke and Tammy Abrahams, rather than sign Mbappe for just 20,000 euros.
Instead of make his name in London, the forward moved to France’s esteemed Clairefontaine academy and developed his game there, much like Thierry Henry, Nicolas Anelka, and Blaise Matuidi before him.
Real Madrid have also been named as a club who were monitoring Mbappe at that age, before he eventually found his way to Monaco in 2015, making his Ligue 1 debut after a few months in the principality as part of his inexorable rise to the top of the game.
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