“You are so important for the country”- Kylian Mbappe recalls how French President convinced him to stay at PSG
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Kylian Mbappe has acknowledged that Real Madrid “feels like your house” and has refused to rule out a future move there. After his previous contract with Paris Saint-Germain expired this summer, it was generally anticipated that the French attacker would join the Santiago Bernabeu on a free transfer.
Instead, he signed a massive three-year agreement with the Ligue 1 giants. After speaking with French President Emmanuel Macron, who got involved in the transfer story in the hopes of persuading Mbappe to reject Real’s advances, Mbappe made his decision.
“I never imagined I’m gonna talk with the president about my future, about my future in my career, so it’s something crazy, really something crazy,” he told The New York Times. “He told me: ‘I want you to stay. I don’t want you to leave now. You are so important for the country’.” Mbappe also revealed that Macron told him: “You have time to leave, you can stay a little bit more.”
Kylian Mbappe has kept the door open for Real Madrid for future move
Mbappe acknowledged the effect Los Blancos had had on him personally and left the door open for a future transfer when asked if playing for Real was still appealing to him. “You never know what’s going to happen,” he said. “You’ve never been there, but it seems like it’s like your house, or something like this.”
La Liga and Ligue 1 engaged in a lengthy legal dispute over Mbappe’s choice to re-sign with PSG because La Liga believed financial fair play regulations must have been infringed to offer the striker such a lucrative contract. There have been numerous claims that Mbappe only stayed with PSG for the money, but he refuted such claims by stating “Everywhere I go, I’m going to get money. I’m this type of player everywhere I go.”
Additionally, he acknowledged that he had been “annoyed” by accusations that he had asked for a say in who would lead the squad as coach or which of his colleagues should be sold. “That’s not my job,” he said. “And I don’t want to do this because I’m not good at it. I’m good on the pitch. Outside the pitch, that’s not my role. There are so many people that are better than me.”
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