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Paris Saint-Germain will never let Neymar or Kylian Mbappe go

PSG chairman Nasser Al-Khelaifi said both Neymar and Kylian Mbappe will stay in Paris next season and “will never leave these two”.

The two superstars were instrumental in PSG’s 2-1 victory over Atalanta in the Champions League which saw the French club reach the semi-finals of the competition from 1994-95.

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Both players are under contract until June 2022 and PSG will try to persuade them to sign new deals in the autumn and extend their stay in the French capital. Neymar has been Barcelona’s target for a year, while Mbappe is wanted by Real Madrid.

However, according to Al-Khelaifi, neither will leave this summer.

“Mbappe and Neymar are among the best players in the world, possibly in the top five or even the top three,” Al-Khelaifi told French TV station RMC Sport. “Neymar was the best on the field, he played a great game. We found Neymar in the last three months, he changed a lot of things in the team. I felt something special.”

The PSG president, who is very close to the Qatari royal family who own the club, doesn’t want to get carried away, though.

“It is very special to be in the semifinals for the first time [since the takeover of the club in the summer 2011]”Al-Khelaifi said.” We will celebrate the victory tonight but already tomorrow we will focus on the semi-final. Our goal is still a long way off, but we’re not thinking about the final, only the semifinal “.

He also stressed how important this victory was in changing people’s vision of the club.

“It is very very important to change the mentality,” he said. “You, even the media: everyone has a doubt about Paris. Today we showed that we could go further, it was a magnificent scenario.

“I’m really proud and I want to thank everyone, the players, the coach. After the end of the championship, everyone said we weren’t ready for this Champions League, but we showed great mental strength even with great players.”

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