(Paris) New twist in the Kylian Mbappé affair: the player came before the press to assure that he had “never asked for (his) departure in January”, contrary to an “info” in which he is “involved neither near or far, ”he certified on Sunday.
Posted at 6:13 p.m.
After giving his first assist of the season, for Neymar, and a 1-0 victory in the classic, the world champion came to the mixed zone to put out the fire that has been burning since Tuesday.
This “info released on the day of the match” of the Champions League against Benica (1-1), Tuesday, “I did not understand it, I was as shocked as everyone”, replied Mbappé.
“People may think I’m involved, I’m not involved at all,” he insisted.
Several concordant sources, however, ensure that the sound of a desire to leave the club where he extended in May, after very long negotiations, came from the entourage of the world champion.
” I am very happy ”
“I was taking a nap, my entourage was at my little brother’s game (Ethan, with PSG in the Youth League, editor’s note), no one around me was there,” he insisted. “We were flabbergasted when we found out.”
“Afterwards, we have to deal with it, we had a game to play”, continued Mbappé, saying again: “It’s just to say that it’s completely false, I’m very happy”.
On Wednesday, a new affair broke out around PSG, which would have recruited a “digital army” to harm its opponents, and even, according to some media, some of its own players, including Mbappé.
On this specific point, the club fiercely denies, explaining that it was not going to “troll” a player whom it spent an entire year convincing to extend to be “at the heart of the project”.
Asked if his confidence in his club was scratched by this new revelation, Mbappé replied: “I am a football player, the most important thing for me is to play, to give the best of myself on the field, if I start to scatter too much I will get tired very quickly”.
As for President Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, “I didn’t see him, I saw him today before the match, he wished us good luck,” replied Mbappé.
“When you play at PSG, you know what you’re getting into,” he added, “you know what it’s going to involve in the good, in the bad, so you have to be ready. Everyone who comes here knows it, we warn them. »
With this story of supposed departure wishes, “we are in the middle of it at the moment, but we are only focused on winning matches and winning titles”, he concluded.