Kylian Mbappé was in a talkative mood. Present to the media 24 hours before Paris Saint-Germain’s entry into the running in the Champions League, the French striker returned to the subject which has been agitating the world of football for more than a week: “the Paul Pogba”. When a judicial investigation was opened, for attempted extortion against the player of the France team, Mbappé was cited as an alleged target of a maraboutage, organized by Pogba to believe his brother. , Matthias. A thesis in which the PSG player does not believe, who explains that he was contacted by his teammate in the selection on this subject.
To know if this sordid extra-sporting episode could stretch his relations with Paul Pogba, Mbappé replied calmly: “Today, I prefer to trust the word of a teammate. He called me, he gave me his version of the facts. Today it’s his word against his brother’s.“
“I prefer to trust the word of a teammate”, Kylian Mbappé returns to the Pogba affair
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During this press conference, Kylian Mbappé appeared quite relaxed, “detached“even according to his words about the Pogba case. The 2018 world champion prefers to focus on the next deadlines, just over two months from the World Cup in Qatar.”I will trust my team-mate, in the interest of the selection toohe shouts. We have a big competition coming up and I think he’s already in some trouble… I don’t think it’s the time to add more to him. We’ll see how it goes.“
Paul Pogba is accused by his brother Mathias of having called on a marabout to cast a spell on Kylian Mbappé, which the midfielder of Juventus Turin denies. Franceinfo revealed to you earlier that Pogba had indeed contacted and “paid money“to a marabout, but rather to a humanitarian association that helps children in Africa, according to him. A version he held before the investigators last August.
In addition to the Paul Pogba case, Kylian Mbappé has not evaded any question, some sometimes sensitive such as his relationship with Neymar, or the “penalty gate”, a rare jolt at the start of the Paris Saint-Germain season. Mbappé will have dribbled through only one theme, the evocation of the overall project of PSG, “it is neither the place nor the time.“Unlike the burning Paul Pogba affair, therefore.