Along with Messi and Neymar, Mbappé dominates the French league and Paris Saint-Germain's Champions League group. So is everything great? Nothing there! According to the media, the French star footballer is causing trouble in the club because he doesn't like his position and doesn't have the right teammates.
Kylian Mbappé scores as he wants this season and is the best player in Paris Saint-Germain's elite ensemble together with the also outstanding Neymar and Lionel Messi. He has scored three times in three Champions League games and eight times in nine league games. The mood could hardly be better at the 2018 world champion. But now the French star footballer is causing a powerful vortex of a negative nature in the club. According to French media reports, Mbappé wants to leave PSG. And as soon as possible, supposedly in January after the World Cup in Qatar.
The PSG striker feels betrayed by the club's management, especially President Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, and Qatar as a shareholder of the club, reported the broadcaster RMC Sport and the newspaper "Le Parisien". The striker had extended by three years in May, two of which are fixed and one year as an option that only he can draw. Now my Mbappé that the promises made to him have not been kept, including his position on the pitch.
However, Paris St. Germain immediately denied his star striker's alleged change request. "I'm with Kylian Mbappé every day, he never spoke to me about a move in January," PSG sporting director Luis Campos said ahead of Canal's Champions League game against Benfica. "It's not a statement from the player, it's a press release and having such information ahead of a game like this is very serious, so I'm here to deny and say clearly that Kylian Mbappe is not with me nor has he ever spoken to the President (Nasser Al-Khelaifi, ed.) about leaving PSG in January."
Mbappé, who creates "a strange feeling of unease at PSG", "keeps making disturbing statements about his use as a striker," wrote "Le Parisien". He also complained that he was given the prospect of playing with Robert Lewandowski and getting rid of Neymar. But the Brazilian stayed and Lewandowski is at Barça.
Since August, Mbappé has found it difficult to hide his irritation, the newspaper continued. At the club's headquarters, where the discomfort with the star has long been known, the news caught everyone unprepared. As reported by RMC Sport, it is suspected within the club that the talk about a possible departure is a means of pressure from the Mbappé clan in order to influence other players internally. President Al-Khelaïfi does not want to hear anything about a possible departure and refuses to further fuel the polemic.
(This article was first published on Tuesday, October 11, 2022.)
