“I’m not making it a state affair.” After the statement sent by the entourage of Kylian Mbappé, Wednesday evening, it is the turn of the president of the Federation to try to calm the game about the refusal of the Parisian to honor his presence in marketing operations with certain sponsors of the ‘French team. In the columns of The TeamThursday, Noël Le Graët did everything to clear the ground and settle the issue as calmly as possible.
After announcing the sending of a letter to the player and to his lawyer, Me Delphine Verheyden, the Breton made a point of specifying that there would be no sanction strictly speaking against the player of Paris Saint-Germain. The idea being to discuss and “see point by point what is causing the problem”. “We want to improve things and that people are happy, sponsors and players,” he added.
Le Graët will meet Mbappé after South Africa
Le Graët has thus planned to meet Kylian Mbappé after the two friendly matches of the Blues against Côte d’Ivoire, Friday in Marseille, and South Africa, Tuesday in Lille. “Then there is some time for us to see each other. He is Parisian and me too from time to time… I have confidence in him (…). This has no consequences for the future. It allows our lawyers to work… I trust him. He’s a brilliant boy. I’m not making it a state affair. »
Aware that we do not put a player like Mbappé on our backs, especially a few months before a World Cup, the former president of En Avant Guingamp assures that “there will be no arm wrestling but “a conversation”. And NLG to conclude, optimistic: “There will be another operation with the sponsors, at the start of the school year, before going to the World Cup. I assure you that at that time everything will be settled. “Which act.