“If there is no other way out, we will go to court” | Relief
Mbappe’s last season was far from easy.. It started with PSG threatening to leave him in the stands after he announced that he was not going to renew his contract with the club, and continued with tensions over the million-dollar salary (and bonuses) that the Parisian organization, according to the footballer, owed him after signing his last contract, which ended with the mess that the Spanish national team made of France in the semi-finals of the European Cup… and a broken nose.
“Luis Enrique and Luis Campos saved me” – the player said in the first press conference he called after his move to Real Madrid was announced. In this appearance, he showed all the pressure he felt from his club, and especially from President Al-Khelaifi, to reconsider his position and once again abandon his decision to leave with Florentino Perez. “PSG told me to my face in a furious tone that I would not play this season.” This Wednesday, in an interview with Le Parisien newspaper, his mother Faiza Lamari also hinted that Kylian had a bad time.
“What happened in Paris is comparable to a breakupWhen he breaks down, at that moment you only think about the negative. But our role is not to look back, but to give him time, so that very soon Kylian will remember only the positive moments of last year in Paris. And there were many positive moments. Today Kylian is in Madrid, and we can thank not only Monaco, but also Paris. After all, it was PSG that trusted him when he was 18 and invested so much money in him… I think he has more than recouped it. Not everything went well“, said.
Mbappe’s mother refers to the dispute her son has with the Parisian club over the salary and bonuses they owe him. The parties are far from reaching an agreement:”Now it is in the hands of Kilian’s representatives.But I believe that PSG will normalize the situation very quickly. We just received a letter from you. Decisions will be made. Sometimes when you break up, you have to decide who gets the TV, who gets the furniture, who gets the car… That’s where we are. I hope that all this doesn’t tarnish everything we’ve been through, that we don’t leave it like that. As in a couple, I repeat, everything is never rosy, there are ups and downs. But in six months everything will be better.”
The tone seems conciliatory, the speech is ironclad. Mbappe will go to court if their demands are not met: “If we have no choice, yes, of course we will go to court. Now I really hope that the contract we signed two years ago will be respected. Let’s stop saying what Kylian said, he didn’t say, he did this, he didn’t do that… In fact, no one can say what happened, neither me nor the PSG representatives, because for two years Kylian and the president were always They were alone, except once. And none of that has stopped Kilian from playing since the announcement was made in February…”
“They are burned…”
Aside from the contractual and emotional issues, Mbappe’s season was also physically difficult. Despite his most productive campaign, he didn’t finish it. He was spotted at the European Championships, where, to make matters worse, he broke his nose. Mbappe’s body has started to say ‘enough’, Lamari admits: “At the Eurocup all the players burned out. Since the World Cup for two years now (and not only that) the guys are moving forward. Be careful, the idea is not to complain, but to analyze and try to understand. He had five Christmas days off in a year, a maximum of 15 in two years. Let’s not forget that this is physical work.. What happened this season inside the company also affected the emotional level. And to top it all off, he breaks his nose. When I see everything that happened, I tell myself that only when you love football can you go all the way. I’m not worried.”