QA few hours after the end of the championship, perhaps that of the most breathtaking transfer soap opera? “Kylian is a Paris Saint-Germain player, he will remain 100% so,” assured the president of Paris Saint-Germain, Nasser al-Khelaïfi, Sunday in Brest after the 38e and last day of Ligue 1. “Don’t worry, let us work, he’s Parisian, he’s French, he loves Paris,” added the Qatari leader when asked if the club should transfer Mbappé this summer if he did not extend his contract, which ends in June 2022, at the risk of leaving free the following season.
The president was speaking on the sidelines of the 38e and last day of Ligue 1, where PSG won in Brest (2-0) but finished 2e of L1 behind Lille. But “to say that this season is a failure, no”, insisted Al-Khelaïfi. “Lille deserved their title, we didn’t do what was necessary to avoid it, but I don’t think this season is a failure,” he added.
“Lots of positive things”
“We are disappointed not to have won the championship, but we were in the semi-finals” of the Champions League, against Manchester City (2-1 / 2-0), we won the Cup (of France) also, but there are a lot of positive things, let’s not forget that we beat Manchester United, Barcelona and Bayern Munich ”, continued the manager. He also wanted to “congratulate Lille, who had a very good season, we are fair play”.
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“This season has been very complicated for us with the Covid, with the Champions League played late, and the lack of preparation,” he added. “It’s true, if we want to win the championship we should never lose eight games” in Ligue 1, he admitted. But every year I am told that Ligue 1 is easy, and this year it was not easy at all, it was very tight. “You have to learn the lesson of this year, you need to be really strong in every game”, concluded the manager before “thanking” his sporting director, Leonardo, who “has done a lot of very good work since. two years “.
