Mbappé met in February with Naser al Jelaifi, the owner of the French club, to inform him of his goodbye at the end of the season. And this Friday, after the team’s elimination in the Champions League against Borussia Dortmund, the French star made his departure official with a farewell video. Mbappé will play his last match this Sunday at the Parc des Princes against Tououse and, finally, before the match, Luis Enrique spoke out. “It’s something we’ve all known for a long time. You all knew them. And I think that all parties have behaved in the best way,” resolved the Asturian.
Mbappé has not specified his destination in the video he published on his networks. He did clarify that he will play away from France. All roads lead to Real Madrid. “I think it is clear where he is going. I understand and can understand his decision. He is a legend of the club, he has given everything for the club and the club has given him everything. I wish him well. No complaints. Proud to have lived this year with Mbappé. Even though they have tried to confront us many times and Kylian himself denied it. I can only speak highly of him, of Kylian the footballer and Kylian the person. From his brother too,” he added.
The coach has four games left with the French star, starting with this Sunday against Toulouse. This is Paris Saint-Germain’s last league match before visiting Nice on May 15 and closing the tournament in the Breton city of Lorient, on the 19th against Metz. “The Cup final, on May 25 against Lyon, will offer the player one last opportunity to offer a trophy to the fans before leaving, as he announced, for another country.
Therefore, tomorrow’s match will be the opportunity for the stands to show their gratitude to the club’s all-time top scorer or to reproach him for his departure. “That is our goal now. To continue competing and winning titles. I am convinced that, regardless of the players that are there, next year we will be stronger because it is a way that I think,” Luis Enrique resolved.
In the seven years they have been together, PSG and Mbappé have won fourteen titles together, including six leagues and three French Cups (and could achieve the fourth). In addition, the star attacker and captain has become the club’s all-time top scorer, with 255 goals and 108 assists in 305 games in all competitions.
But the Parisian team has not achieved the Champions League that its Qatari owners crave since they bought the club in 2011. In these seven years, the closest PSG came to that trophy was the 2020 final, which they lost to Bayern. Munich 1-0. And the signings of world stars like Neyman or Messi failed to break the spell.
Speaking of the Champions League. Luis Enrique did not like being questioned if it had been a failure not to have taken PSG to the final. “To the one who asks, to the one with failure, to the one with the helmets. You don’t even know how many teams there are in the Champions League. The same failure is not studying how many teams there are in the Champions League. “We move on to the next question,” responded the PSG coach.
