"I told my brother: 'If you want to stay, I'll renew and I'll resign to Madrid"

"I told my brother: 'If you want to stay, I'll renew and I'll resign to Madrid"

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Mbapope could have stayed at PSG because of his younger brother. AFP

In another of the articles that deserve their own space in Kylian Mbappe's interview with the 'Clique' program on 'Canal+', the Real Madrid striker said that he offered his brother Ethan to renew with PSG if he wanted to stay at the Parc des Princes. He was willing to give up his “dream” for the sake of making the now Lille player happy.

This summer, not only Kylian Mbappe left PSG. Ethan also said goodbye to the Parc des Princes. In his case, he signed for Lille while the elder of the two fulfilled his dream of joining Real Madrid. On Sunday, in an extensive interview with the program 'Clique', of 'Canal+', he uncovered that this move was almost aborted because, together, they contemplated the possibility of staying in the French capital.

“Yes, that happened. It was what affected me the most. It was Madrid or PSG and he told me he didn't want to stay, that it wasn't normal what they were doing to me. I told him, 'If you want to stay, I'll renew and we'll stay a little longer.' I would have given up my dream of Madrid for him, so that nothing happens to him. What sense does it make to sign for the best club in the world if you end your own brother's career,” said Carlo Ancelotti's striker.

On his relationship with the emir of Qatar, he recalled: “I was in the car and the news came out that the emir of Qatar was going to make me an unanswerable offer to stay at PSG, but the truth is that he told me: 'They think I'm going to make you an offer, but you have decided to leave and I respect your decision. You want to make your dream of going to Real Madrid come true, thank you for everything'. That got under my skin. I told him I was going to give my best until the end of the season. The relationship with the emir has always been excellent.”

“PSG meant a lot to me. I spent seven years there, it's a super intense place. Maybe the mistake I made was to mix everything up. I had disputes with people, I defended my rights as a player, but I didn't represent the club, I never mixed anything with the players, with the people in the youth academy and the squad. The fans said that 'Kylian doesn't care'. They think that, for me, it was a hobby before I left for Madrid. I still watch PSG games, I know how difficult it is to talk about PSG. I have always maintained a link with the club, you don't just cut it off like that,” he recalled more generally.

December 8, 2024