This Saturday, PSG will bid farewell to Kylian Mbappé, but it could have happened much earlier. In fact, back in 2022, the Frenchman already wanted to leave the capital club.
The World Cup champion had agreed to stay, but he wanted Neymar and Lionel Messi to leave the club. Upon resuming, with Messi and Neymar still in Paris, Mbappé had warned his president that he was considering a departure.
The love story between Kylian Mbappé and PSG will thus have lasted seven years. An eternity in the world of football, but it must be said that the capital club tried everything over the years to keep their forward.
Mbappé no longer wanted Neymar and Messi
PSG almost granted everything to Kylian Mbappé to try to keep him. In 2022, the World Cup champion had agreed to extend his contract in Paris because he had been promised an ambitious transfer window and the prospect of being at the heart of the project. But according to L’Équipe’s information, the forward quickly became disillusioned when he saw that Neymar and Lionel Messi were still at PSG, at the start of the 2022-2024 season. This had then led Mbappé to inform his president that he was considering a departure soon.
Neymar and Messi have left, Mbappé will follow suit
It wasn’t until the summer of 2023 that Neymar and Lionel Messi left PSG. But it was too late for Kylian Mbappé, who had already made his decision to leave PSG. A choice notably motivated by unfulfilled promises regarding the transfer window. As exclusively revealed by le10sport.com, this will suit Real Madrid, as the Spanish club is set to be the next destination for the 2018 World Cup champion. The official announcement could come before the start of the Euro, but most likely after the Champions League final.
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