Kylian Mbappé now wears white and plays at the Santiago Bernabéu, but the process has not been easy. The departure of PSG was an odyssey for the player and his last months in Paris explain it. French newspaper ‘L’Équipe’ reported how the player’s relations with Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, the boss of the French club, deteriorated. Several episodes which explain why the tension between the two parties continues with these 55 million outstanding.
In 2022, when everything seemed to indicate that he could sign for Real Madrid, Kylian Mbappé surprised everyone by renewing his contract. PSG announced it with great fanfare and celebrated it during an unforgettable scene at the Parc des Princes. It’s a victory for Al-Khelaïfi, who fought until the end. Not without one engagement financier clearly in favor of player continuity. Something that, according to him, the player began to forget a few months later.
‘L’Équipe’ recalls that this tension began in June 2023 when, one year from the end of his contract, he sent a letter to the club headquarters to say that he would not renew with PSG and that he would leave for free at the end of his contract with the Parisian club. This letter exasperates Al-Khelaïfi, who sees it as an ungrateful attitude for the efforts he made for him a short time before. During a meeting at the manager’s home, he warns him that he will not sign for Real Madrid – after learning that he would not renew his contract – which would have caused the player to laugh.
Once the divorce proceedings have begun, it is the president who, according to ‘L’Équipe’, addresses Luis Enrique to try to leave him in the stands. The Spanish coach threatened to do so, but did not accept because he understood that he should not do without his best player. He still reduced his playing time. His version – not that of the French daily – has always been that the reason was to accustom the team to playing without Mbappé, who was at the end of his contract.
That’s all there is to say, but with these 55 million still pending, there was a new episode in May. After the match against PSG, a new quarrel between the two protagonists. According to ‘L’Équipe’, Al-Khelaïfi would have encouraged Luis Enrique not to call Ethan MbappéKylian’s brother, who was then playing for the Parisian club. The current Real Madrid player found his brother in tears in the locker room, this which caused great anger on the part of the Frenchman, who again made it known that he would not forgive the 55 million that he said at the time that he would release.
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