Paris SG star striker Kylian Mbappé admitted in an interview with BFM broadcast on Friday that his club
"was less scary"
and that it was necessary to
"become untouchable in France again" in
order to be able to aim for the much-hoped-for coronation in the Champions League.
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“This season and last year, we were less scary, we were less untouchable
,” said the French international from New York where he signed a partnership with the NBA which will work with his new production company Zebra Valley.
The 23-year-old, who extended his contract at the end of May until 2025 with the Parisian club, reaffirmed his desire to win the Champions League, "a clear and announced objective" while PSG, despite the arrival of Lionel Messi was eliminated in the round of 16 by Real Madrid this season.
"There is a way and I think it goes through unanimity at the national level, we haven't done it for the past two years"
, admitted the 2018 world champion.
Mbappé also returned to the statements of PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaïfi who estimated at the start of the week that winning the Champions League would go through
“a less bling-bling PSG”
.
"I understand the club's message, it's the message that was sent to me too (...) It's really the will of the club, I'm just getting into this project, I don't have not been the basis of the project. With all the changes that are going to happen, great things are going to happen
, ”he insisted, while brushing aside the idea that he had had demands on the internal functioning of the team, to extend his contract.
"The club comes first (...) it's not my project (...) There will be a PSG before me and after me, I just want to bring my stone to the building"
, a- he added.
Mbappé also spoke of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar (November 21-December 18) and the dream of emulating Brazil, the last country to have kept their trophy in 1958 and 1962: "We have an opportunity and we will do everything to seize it, but we have a lot of work.
We are not ready yet, but there are a few months left before the deadline, I am confident.
