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In an interview with Le Figaro, the former sports director of PSG affirms that when he was to sell Kylian Mbappé from 2021.
Leonardo does not forget PSG, where he was first a player before becoming the sporting director of the capital club twice (2011-2013, then 2019-2022).
In an interview given to Figaro this Monday, November 4, the 1994 world champion notably returned to the case of Kylian Mbappé, who ended up joining Real Madrid free this summer, while the player clearly wanted to join Spain for several years.
And then to mention the extension of the star player's Parisian lease in 2022, which the manager claims to have opposed at the time: “I was against […] Always. From the start. I even think he was supposed to be sold at the end of the 2020-2021 season, when PSG had an offer from Real Madrid and he only had one year left on his contract. How is it manageable afterwards? If you lose a player, it's annoying, but the club is not going to die. What great institution collapsed by losing a player? None. It may take a while, but you always get back up. I was a player, but nothing can ever be more important than a club.”
