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"Mbappé will stay at 100% at PSG": Nasser Al-Khelaïfi optimistic despite losing the title

2021-05-24T06:43:25.477Z


At the end of the last day of Ligue 1, this Sunday, while PSG did not retain its title of champion of France, the president pa


Less than an hour after the end of the match in Brest (0-2), this Sunday, when the engine of the Parisian coach is running behind him and Neymar is about to get into a van to take a plane to the Brazil, Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, the president of PSG, stops in front of the microphones to take stock of this season when Paris will not be champion of France.

What is your feeling after this last unfavorable day in Paris?

NASSER AL-KHELAÏFI.

We're disappointed, of course, but I want to congratulate Lille, which has had a very good season and deserves this title.

We are fair play.

We must congratulate the players, the supporters and the coach Christophe Galtier too.

We do not forget either the one who built this team: Gérard Lopez.

He worked very hard.

Afterwards, the season was very complicated for everyone, but especially for us, with the Covid, the Champions League final last season and a resumption without preparation.

These are not excuses.

Lille deserves.

Congratulations to them.

What have you been missing this season?

Eight defeats: we're not used to it ...

Yes, it's true.

If we want to win the championship, we can't lose eight games!

But every year everyone tells us that Ligue 1 is easy.

This season it was not easy at all.

It was tight.

There were 4 teams at one point until the end.

It's good for the championship.

But the championship is not at all easy to win.

Even by going to the semi-finals of the Champions League, we did not win the championship.

It means that Ligue 1 is a really good championship too.

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Can we speak of failure?

No, I think this season we were still in the semi-finals of the Champions League.

If we have our best players, maybe we can even go to the final.

We also won the Coupe de France.

There are a lot of good things.

We beat Manchester United, Barcelona, ​​Bayern Munich!

It is true that we are disappointed not to be champions but Lille deserved.

We didn't do the right thing, that's all.

After that we cannot say that it is a failure.

We can look at what we did wrong, we will improve for next season.

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Are you going to convince Kylian Mbappé to stay?

I always say: Kylian is a Paris Saint-Germain player (Editor's note: under contract until June 2022).

He will stay at PSG 100%.

If he doesn't extend his contract, will you be forced to sell him?

I do not worry.

Let us work.

He is Parisian, he is French, he loves Paris.

We have no problem.

He said it after the Coupe de France: he loves Paris and wants to always stay in Paris.

Are you sure ?

Certain.

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Will all this lead you to make an ambitious transfer window?

Our project is ambitious.

It's not just next season.

Of course we'll talk with Leo and the coach.

We know what we need to do.

We have already started to work.

We do not forget to thank the coach, the players and a person we do not talk about too much: Leonardo.

He has done a very, very good job the past two years.

I really want to thank him.

Will you have the financial means to be a player in the transfer market?

Of course.

Messi's name is also coming back.

Does the PSG have the means of its ambitions compared to this kind of player?

I'm not talking about the transfer window today.

If we want to sign players, you the media will be the first to know.

What conclusions do you draw from Pochettino's work?

It was not easy for him to arrive in the middle of the season.

We are very, very happy with him.

He did a very good job with his staff.

Source: leparis

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