Kylian Mbappé announced to Parisian leaders his intention to leave PSG – Liberation

The Paris Saint-Germain star has announced his intention to leave the club at the end of the season, we learned from reliable sources this Thursday, February 15.

This is called mithridatization, or addiction to a poison cultivated by injecting small doses into the body at regular intervals. The day after the victory (2-0) in the round of 16 first leg of the Champions League obtained thanks to his opening score (at this stage, all the details count), Kylian Mbappé, according to the ™AFP, citing a source close to the capital club, warned Paris-SG that it will not extend its lease beyond the current season and that it will thus leave free (for zero euros) next June. The announcement was made this Tuesday at the Poissy training center (Yvelines). Mbappé has not communicated his destination but there is little doubt: it is at Real Madrid that the captain of the Blues will settle down.

According to our information, however, nothing has been signed between the two parties at this stage. The player will communicate this later: never two steps at a time, in accordance with the line of conduct that the player adopted at the start of the season. The French striker has learned quite a few lessons from the psychodramas triggered by his contractual situation since the summer of 2021, when he expressed his wishes to Parisian leaders for the first time. initial desires. The criticisms of supporters, fueled on social networks by “troll farms” in the pay of certain Parisian leaders, have been heard.

Abandon des primes

Just like the violent reaction and threats from PSG president Nasser al-Khelaifi last summer, threatening the player with a white season if he refused to play. extend at the club beyond June 2024, leading according to La Chaine l’Equipe the player’s father to consider a series of friendly matches so that his son keeps the rhythm in order to evolve ( almost) at his level with the Blues.

From then on, the player’s clan decided not to rush anyone, or as little as possible. Guarantees of good conduct (i.e. the abandonment of all or part of the contractualized loyalty bonuses in spring 2022, 80 million euros supposedly to be paid in two installments) given s to his interlocutors at the club, not a word louder than the other in public, the possibility of extending to Paris-SG systematically provided in the player’s communication (while we imagine his decision to go back a long way) and relatives silent on the subject, even off-screen. However, Mbappé will have installed the idea of ​​a departure all the same.

The interview given to Amazon at the beginning of January, which saw the player revisit his most notable goals with PSG, had thus established a retrospective feeling, as if the time to take stock had come. His silence on his situation at the club during the Blues’ media raids will also, apparently, establish a distance. Just like the 180° turn in Paris-SG communication last June, promoting a more collective and younger project, “less bling-bling” (al-Khelaïfi): having sold the idea of a more collective and stronger team without Lionel Messi in June, the leaders gave substance to the fantasy of a formation that could do without its international striker, which nevertheless hovers over domestic competitions (24 goals in 26 matches) like never before. If the officialization of Mbappé’s departure cannot be a non-event, we are getting a little closer anyway since everyone has understood and digested the idea © of a departure. “The conditions of departure must still be fully agreed,” explains the source cited by AFP.

Twist the arm

Which adds that the two parties will communicate officially “when everything is finalized in the coming months”. Two things to understand. The first: Mbappé can contractually leave free, the Parisian club will still try to twist his arm to recover something, a pure matter of ego and communication. The second: there is one step left, this famous “finalization” giving rise to an official communication, before the announcement of the departure of the French superstar to Madrid. One step after another.