After “The Team” of the day, Kylian Mbappé gave a long interview to RMC this Tuesday evening and to the former Parisian player Jérôme Rothen as part of his program “Rothen ignites”. Recorded in the middle of last week, the interview returned at length to the initial desires of the “Kid de Bondy”, its complicated summer and many other themes. For two hours, the PSG striker did not evade any subject: “Yes. I asked to leave. From the moment I did not want to extend, I wanted the club to have a transfer fee, to have a quality replacement. Because it's a club that brought me a lot. I have always been happy over the four years I spent here. And I still am. I announced it early enough that the club could turn around. I asked for it at the end of July, even before.It didn't leak. I really wanted everyone to grow up to go out, to go out hand in hand, to make a good deal, and everyone to follow their own path. "
"Did you know that Messi was coming to play at Paris Saint-Germain, you?"
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The transfer to Real aborted, the Parisian no longer projects into the near future, as he explained in the Team.
“I learned something: the truth of yesterday is not that of today, it will not be that of tomorrow, continues Mbappé.
Did you know that Messi was coming to play at Paris Saint-Germain?
The truth is, I wanted to leave this summer.
I don't want to talk people about it.
It's tiring for everyone.
I think we can create something extraordinary this year.
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🎙 @KMbappe facing @RothenJerome and @jltourre, it's at 6pm in "Rothen S'Enflamme" on RMC.
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- Rothen ignites (@Rothensenflamme) October 5, 2021
In the confession, Kylian Mbappé returns again to the criticisms against him and his supposed arrogance: “Critics when it is the field, it is normal. It advances a player. When you're playing a bad game, saying you're playing a bad game isn't a criticism, it's a truth. Attacking the person is something else. But I do a public job. If I didn't want to be judged on my person, I would have done something, I would have put on a Daft Punk helmet (laughs). I accept, that's how it is. It's a shame because people don't know you, don't know who you are. "
A little further on, Mbappé also recounts his discovery of Messi: “We had really prejudices. But the guy is super quiet. He's a football genius. From day one he had no rhythm, he was coming back from the Copa America, but you see the talent of the guy. It's a crazy thing. It really is a message from the heart: I would really like us to savor this. Paris Saint-Germain brought back a lot of great players, but no one thought he was going to leave Barcelona. There is of course this quest for the Champions League. God only knows that we will do everything. But it would upset me, if we don't win it, if we say: "
Messi, he came, he didn't win the Champions League.
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He came to make people love it.
When he scored (against Manchester City) the stadium was in fury.
This is also why we buy players like that.
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So everything is in place to win the Champions League this season before a possible departure then?
“You are never sure.
There are other teams, we are not alone.
When I look at the other teams, there are some who have a really strong collective, machines that run.
No one is fully developed yet.
But you smell, you see… It foreshadows things.
The guys are ready.
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