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France captain Kylian Mbappe is set to become the majority owner of second division club Caen, French media reported on Monday. Mbappe, 25, who joined Real Madrid from Paris Saint-Germain this summer, will spend 20 million euros ($21.6 million) to buy an 80 percent stake in the Normandy team from American investors Oaktree, according to the newspaper Le Parisien. The 2018 World Cup winner almost joined Caen as a teenager before signing for Monaco.
Caen finished sixth in Ligue 2 last season and their former players include Mbappe’s France team-mate N’Golo Kanté and former Les Bleus defender William Gallas.
The two-time Ligue 2 champion, founded in 1913, begins the new campaign by hosting Paris FC on August 17th.
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