No one missed him, but he's back: it's the Kylian Mbappé soap opera.
Everything and its opposite had circulated last season, before the French striker (23) ended up extending his three-year contract, until June 2025. Enough to extinguish the rumors … briefly.
This Tuesday, the Madrid daily
Marca
is reigniting the fuse.
“
Mbappé explodes: he wants to leave PSG in January!!!!
», Enthusiastically titles
Marca
.
According to the Iberian newspaper, there would be "
no turning back possible
".
Mbappé has struggled to hide his frustration in recent weeks.
In question, in particular, its positioning on the ground, which is accompanied by lower performance after a very high level 2021-22 exercise.
“
I am trying to reassure Mbappé
”, soothed his coach Christophe Galtier, this Monday at a press conference.
Sufficient ?
Not for
Marca
, who however stress that a move to Real Madrid, as has been the trend for years, is unlikely.
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Relations between Paris and Real, and especially between their presidents, Nasser Al-Khelaïfi and Florentino Pérez, are strained to say the least.
Marca
ensures that PSG opened the door to a departure last July, which would have allowed the club to pocket a nice sum rather than seeing Mbappé leave free at the end of the contract two months earlier.
Today, PSG would have closed the door.
At the time, the capital club wanted to push the Bondynois to Liverpool, the only other club interested and able to afford the player.
In any case, Mbappé still has a few matches to play in Paris, before heading to Qatar to compete in the World Cup with the France team (November 20 – December 21).
