'A divisive club' - Mbappe SLAMS PSG in explosive interview

Tom Weber

• 8 Jul 2023 13:51 BST
• 3 min read

Kylian Mbappe is evidently unhappy with Paris Saint-Germain, calling them a 'divisive club' in a recent interview.

The transfer saga surrounding the Frenchman drags on. Last month, it was revealed that the 24-year-old has no intention of extending his PSG contract, therefore becoming a free agent next summer. This has caused outrage at the French club, with Nasser Al-Khelaifi expressing his disappointment in Mbappe at Luis Enrique's unveiling as the new PSG coach.

Speaking to La Parisien, Al-Khelaifi remarked: "We want him to stay but he can't leave for free. It was our oral agreement and he had expressed it publicly in an interview. So it's not debatable. And I was really shocked to learn that he intended to leave for free."

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"It's very disappointing," he added, "because Kylian is a fantastic boy, a real gentleman, and leaving for free, weakening the biggest French club, it's not like him. When I received this information, I was shocked and disappointed."

With impeccable timing, France Football has now published an explosive interview with Mbappe from June that could just as well have been a response to Al-Khelaifi.

What did Mbappe say?

"Do people trivialise my performance? Yes, but at the same time, I don't blame them," Mbappe said. "In France, they saw me grow up, they see me all the time, at PSG every weekend or in the national team. And I've been scoring a lot for years. So, for people, it becomes normal."

"I never complained that my performances were trivialised," he added. "I am young and I had the chance to be an observer, not so long ago, before being an actor. And myself, I trivialised what [Lionel] Messi was doing, what Cristiano Ronaldo was doing, what the great players were doing. We are in a consumer society, where 'it's good, but do it again.'"

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"And the fact that I'm right next door, in Paris... I think playing at PSG doesn't help much because it's a divisive team, a divisive club. So, of course, it attracts gossip but it doesn't bother me because I know what I'm doing and how I do it."