It is the soap opera that agitates Paris Saint-Germain on this summer transfer window. By informing his leaders that he will not exercise his option to extend his contract which expires in June 2024, Kylian Mbappé started a real fire.
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Indeed, the reigning French champion does not want to take the risk of letting his superstar leave for free in a year at the end of his lease without bringing back a single penny in the coffers. Faced with this situation, the Parisian President Nasser Al-Khelaïfi has multiplied the pressure strokes in recent days and warned the captain of the Blues that he will be put up for sale this summer if he does not return by July 31. For his part, the former Monegasque merely repeats that he will still be Parisian next season.
“PSG will exist after Mbappé”
Perfectly familiar with the backstage of the capital club, the former sporting director of PSG, Leonardo (2011-2013, 2019-2022), believes that a departure from the Habs represents in any case the best option for the Ile-de-France club. “For the sake of PSG, I think the time has come for Mbappé to leave, no matter how“Launched the Italian-Brazilian this Sunday in the columns of The Teambefore developing this point of view which will make noise.
Leonardo, former sports director of PSG, believes that “for his own good” the capital club must turn the page on Kylian Mbappé this summer https://t.co/hS4oombgWU pic.twitter.com/5rR3uwX77g
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“With his behavior over the past two years, Mbappé shows that he is not yet a player capable of really guiding a team. He is a great player, not a leader. He is a great scorer, not a creative. It’s hard to build a team around him“argued the ex-Auriverde. “Paris-Saint-Germain existed before Kylian Mbappé and it will exist after him. He has been in Paris for six years and, over these six seasons, five different clubs have won the Champions League, none of which had Mbappé in their ranks. This means that it is entirely possible to win this competition without him.“While the departure of the kid from Bondy seems inevitable, whether this summer or next, it remains to be seen whether these words will be enough to reassure Parisian supporters.