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Lee Wilmot

'Welcome to Arsenal' - These Gunners fans want to rival Liverpool's Mbappe 2020 campaign

What does the future hold for Kylian Mbappe?

Every club in the Premier League would be keen to sign him, but very few have the money to do so.

Mbappe finished sixth in the Ballon d'Or voting in December and will continue to be towards the top of the pile in terms of world fotoballer of the year given his performances for Paris Saint-Germain.

The 21-year-old has 22 goals in 25 games in all competitions for the French champions this season, but he will have sent tongues wagging with what he did on Saturday afternoon.

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The young striker reacted badly to be substituted during the 5-0 win over Montpellier, in which he had scored, appearing to have strong words with manager Thomas Tuchel on the sidelines as he went off.

Tuchel played down the incident saying afterwards: "It doesn't look good, but we are not the only club where players react like that.

"This team shows how professional and focused they are every day, but this gives the impression it's not always like that and I'm sad because it's not necessary.

"I explained to him why he came off and that will be that. I always make decisions for sporting reasons. This is football, not tennis, and you have to respect everyone."

Liverpool fans started an online campaign to get the Frenchman to Anfield, with the hashtag Mbappe2020 trending on more than one occasion.

And following the incident against Montpellier the Arsenal fans have joined in too.

Arsenal broke their transfer record last summer when they signed Nicolas Pepe from Lille for £72million.

It would take a hell of a lot more than that to prise Mbappe away from PSG, but as you can see from the reaction above there are certain Arsenal supporters who think it is something that can happen.

Whatever happens the transfer gossip around the France youngster is sure to ramp up after this latest incident as we move towards the summer transfer window.

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