This time, the President of the Republic will not enter into the dance around the future of Kylian Mbappé.
Coming to inaugurate the Olympic village in Saint-Denis five months before the Games this Thursday, Emmanuel Macron was questioned after the reception of the Bondynois at the presidential palace this Tuesday evening.
And in particular to find out if this dinner had been an opportunity to try to retain the PSG striker...
“No, no, no, no... Not at all,” replied Emmanuel Macron, smiling.
There have been no discussions on this and I leave it to the club management to do that.
It was normal that he was there, he is a great champion who helped to liven up the World Cup final in Qatar.
It's been seven seasons at PSG anyway.
All French people admire this very promising player but there have been no discussions.
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This Tuesday evening, Kylian Mbappé participated in the dinner organized by Emmanuel Macron in the lounges of his official residence.
The President of the Republic invited the star striker of the capital club and its president Nasser Al-Khelaïfi to the meal organized in honor of Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani.
Questioned in June 2022 a few weeks after his last extension with PSG, Kylian Mbappé had already returned, in an interview with the New York Times, to his relationship with his president and the role he had played in his decision to stay in France until 2025, despite the already recurring approaches of Real Madrid.
“I never imagined that I was going to talk with the president about my future in my career, so it’s something crazy,” declared the 2018 world champion. Emmanuel Macron told me: “I want you stay.
I don't want you to leave now.
You are so important to the country.”
When the president tells you that, it matters.”
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Two years later, Emmanuel Macron did not try or succeed in convincing the native of Bondy to stay at Paris Saint-Germain, he whose future should be written in another European capital, alongside Real Madrid.