Axel Allag, Media365: published on Wednesday January 22, 2025 at 10:00 a.m.
Tuesday, Kylian Mbappé returned to the criticisms made by Neymar around supposed jealousy concerning the relationship between the Brazilian and Lionel Messi.
Kylian Mbappé did not want to fuel the controversy by adding fuel to the fire. Arriving at PSG in the summer of 2017, like Neymar, the 2018 world champion initially got along wonderfully with the Brazilian, but little by little, relations between the two men deteriorated, until to reach a peak at the time of the arrival of Lionel Messi, in the words of Neymar. “We had good years of association, but after the arrival of Messi, he (Mbappé, editor's note) was a little jealous. And then there were some arguments, a change in behavior”, judged the current Al-Hilal player in a Youtube discussion with Romario.
-“Neymar, a unique player in the history of football”
Tuesday therefore came the time for Mbappé's response, interviewed by TNT Sport Brasil. “No (I'm not going to answer). The truth is that I have nothing to say. I'm very focused on what I'm doing here, in Madrid. I have a lot of respect for Neymar,” he said. launched the Real Madrid striker and captain of the Blues, who therefore wanted to focus on the positive of his relationship with the top scorer in the history of the Seleção. “Of course I could talk a lot about Neymar, but I prefer to keep the positive, about a unique player in the history of football and all the moments we spent together in Paris.”
Kylian Mbappé, who recalled his attachment to the French team before Wednesday evening's match against RB Salzburg in C1, concluded on a positive note this little episode launched by Neymar announced close to a return to Santos, his training club. “Now I'm in Madrid, I want to enjoy Madrid. Good luck to Neymar, his family and all his friends.”
