The Limited Times

Now you can see non-English news...

PSG: now, Mbappé will have to decide for his future

2021-05-05T18:00:39.388Z


The elimination against Manchester City in the Champions League will accelerate Kylian Mbappé's decision whether or not to stay at PSG this season.


This elimination in the semi-finals of the Champions League already projects PSG into the aftermath.

There is still a league title and a Coupe de France to win, but the future of Kylian Mbappé will soon return to the heart of Parisian news.

Until now, the 2018 world champion refrained from any announcement on his career choice so as not to interfere with the end of his club's season, especially in the Champions League.

In his rare interventions on the subject, the striker at the end of his contract in 2022 blew hot and cold, affirming: "I am happy in Paris" while stressing that he would be "grateful for life to PSG for incredible opportunities That the club offered him. “I want to think about what I want to do in the next few years, where I want to be, that's the meaning of my thinking. But we will soon have to make a choice, ”he said last January after PSG-Montpellier (4-0). "Soon" is now.

Surely Bondy's crack will still delay a few days, at least as long as PSG still has deadlines.

But he won't be able to hide for long.

Especially since the club of the capital is getting impatient.

Through the voice of its sports director, PSG recalled 10 days ago that the time to see more clearly had come.

“Kylian knows what we're thinking.

Today we have nothing more than that.

The moment when he makes his decision will come, Leonardo recalled.

We're generally optimistic, I'm not talking about Kylian.

There is no reason not to be optimistic about the future, about the team that we will have.

A clever way of asserting that the future PSG will be competitive with or without Mbappé.

Getting closer to the Golden Ball

Because today, the second in L1 still does not know on which foot to dance with his star striker. At the club, we said before the trip to Manchester, in a very cryptic formula, that it was "50/50". The ratio has undoubtedly changed after the elimination against the team of Pep Guardiola which is clearly not good news for the Parisian leaders in search of arguments to convince the young prodigy to sign a long-term lease.

The former Monegasque has never made it a secret that he joined the capital in 2017 to win titles.

And eventually get closer to the Golden Ball.

At the national level he does not have too much to complain with for the moment three titles of champion of France, two Cups of France and two Cups of the League, all with the PSG.

But the shoe pinches in the Champions League.

In four seasons, with Paris Saint-Germain, the number 7 of the Blue and Red has only played a final of the prestigious European competition lost to Bayern Munich (0-1) in 2020.

Money is far from the only driver

This was not really the initial project when Mbappé signed up in August 2017 a month after Neymar signed. Thanks to its two stars, PSG managed to extricate themselves from the gangue of the round of 16 but without winning the prestigious trophy. Certainly Mbappé is partly responsible for this failure. His wasted opportunity in the 2020 final partially doomed Paris. But this inability of PSG to win the Champions League will undoubtedly weigh in his thinking, such as the difficulties of the capital club to acquire a successful midfielder since the stoppage of Thiago Motta's career, and the departures of Blaise Matuidi and Adrien Rabiot.

Kylian Mbappé will go where he can win, and not just a Ligue 1 title or a Coupe de France. If PSG does not offer him guarantees in terms of recruitment - which he strives to do - it would be very surprising if he extended his lease. In this long-term thinking, money is far from the only driving force. Paris has already sent a substantial offer to its top scorer which is close to what Neymar perceives today (3,060,000 euros per month), but the French striker knows he will be able to negotiate more or less the same amount in Europe. It remains to be seen whether the courtier club or clubs will have the financial means for their ambitions. And if Mbappé will choose to go and embrace responsibilities far from Paris as he said in 2019. His answer will not be long in coming.

Source: leparis

All sports articles on 2021-05-05

You may like

Trends 24h

Latest

© Communities 2019 - Privacy

The information on this site is from external sources that are not under our control.
The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.