BREAKING: Real Madrid Finally Set To Land CR7 Replacement As PSG Hit Trouble With UEFA

​Real Madrid’s uncharacteristically muted transfer window could have a more fitting showbiz finish if PSG are to be sanctioned by UEFA for breaches of their Financial Fair Play regulations, a decision which will be reached later today.

If they are found to have been in breach of those rules, they’ll likely be forced into releasing one of their two recent big-money arrivals, the Brazilian star Neymar or, more likely, the former Monaco tyro Kylian Mbappe, with Real Madrid a “likely destination” for the World Cup-winner should he leave, according to Spanish outlet AS.

The loan portion of the loan-to-buy deal that the Qatari-backed French giants picked up Mbappe with expires this Friday, at which point they’ll have to pay Monaco an agreed €180M fee or move him to a club that can. Depending on the result of today’s decision, there is a chance that he’ll have to be moved on.

AS claim that Real, who are yet to reinvest the €100M fee they fetched for the departed Cristiano Ronaldo from Juventus, are the only European club in a position to afford the outlay of bringing him on board. Their chairman, Florentino Perez, is a long-standing, vocal fan of the player.

It might be that the Spanish league authorities have done their member club Real a favour; speaking to AS this week LaLiga president Javier Tebas confirmed that it was the organisation that pressed UEFA to re-examine the books at the Parc des Princes.

"It’s true that at the start of the summer, we asked Uefa to reopen the investigation into PSG," he said.