Special correspondent to Décines
Move along, nothing to see. Relaxed and smiling, Kylian Mbappé appeared in front of journalists on Friday, in Décines, on the eve of France-Germany. There has obviously been a lot of talk about his future at the club. A future which is already sealed, the person concerned having announced his departure at the end of the season to Nasser Al-Khelaïfi and his PSG teammates.
Information that “KM” refused to confirm at Groupama Stadium: “Ask the person who told you (smile),” he laughed. And added: “The day I have something to announce, I will come. I never hid, I was never afraid. If I have something to say, I will come, I will say it, and very easily, because it is not something serious. But it’s just that I don’t have anything to announce. Sorry to disappoint, but I don’t have anything juicy to announce.” In Paris since 2017, Mbappé, 25, will reach the end of his contract at the end of June. He is announced to Real Madrid.
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Relaunched on his way of approaching this sequence, if he was affected or concerned, the captain of the Blues retorted: “I have a question, when you see my last performances, do you see a disturbed guy?” And Mbappé continued: “What happens outside, we don’t care! I am focused on the next match. We have seen everything that has happened in recent weeks. I have always kept my goal, to perform well in the matches that count. I am not responsible for people’s words and thoughts. But I see (smile).”
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One certainty for Kylian Mbappé, who dribbled past journalists with a smile on Friday afternoon, the selection will not suffer from his personal situation. “I will be focused on the France team. The Euro will be my priority. I think it will be resolved (his situation at the club, Editor’s note) by then but at that point, the most important thing will be the selection. I have already shown that when I am in the selection, there is nothing above the national team. So I will continue in this logic.
On the question of the Olympics, the main interested party assures that he “always has the same ambition”. And to elaborate: “I always said that the Olympic Games in Paris were special and that I wanted to be there. And I always said it wasn’t up to me. My ambition has not changed. Today, I cannot say. I wasn’t told no, I wasn’t told yes. As I said, I have reached a point in my life where I take a step back. If I go there, I’ll be living a waking dream, otherwise I’ll do what I’m told to do. » Relaunched on this famous “we” which would have said nothing to him about his participation in the Games, the scorer of PSG and the Blues breathed without blinking: “Paris Saint-Germain, because it is the club with which I am under CONTRACT. But in fact, we didn’t discuss it. »
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After a little more than twelve minutes in front of the media, the native of Bondy stood up, all smiles, saying “good evening” to the audience, before meeting Didier Deschamps, already entering the auditorium as if to attend the end of the show. The two men exchanged a few words, hands over their mouths, before laughing. A communication operation, where almost nothing was said, validated hands down.
