Zlatan Ibrahimovic may have recently retired from professional football, but if the PSG legend’s assessment of Kylian Mbappé’s transfer saga is any indication, the Swede has a future in prediction. .
The Bondynois saw his legacy at PSG crumble within weeks, with the French international superstar going to war with the club over his contract. He refuses to take an option to extend his contract until 2025, which has forced the Ligue 1 champions to put him up for sale against his wishes.
He is currently training in Paris with the other undesirables of the PSG team while the first team are on tour in Japan and South Korea, even if they are struggling without their attacker, beaten 3-2 by the Cerezo Osaka on Friday, with former Man Utd midfielder Shinji Kagawa scoring the winner late in the game.
Interest has come from the Saudi Pro League and the Premier League, but it’s a safe bet that Mbappé will join Real Madrid, with the Spanish press even hinting that a deal could be agreed this summer.
The Spanish press even hinted that the deal could be completed this summer. It’s been a total rift between the player and the club, but Ibrahimovic had already predicted this chaos in November, around six months after the Bondynois extended his contract.
‘Mbappé has made himself bigger than PSG’
Canal+ asked him if the decision to offer the striker a new contract was the right one.
Ibrahimovic replied: “For whom, for him? No. For PSG? Yes. He made the right choice for PSG, not for himself, because he put himself in a position where he is bigger than the club, and the club gave him the keys to everything.
“You are never bigger than your club, but when a child becomes strong, he can easily generate income, so his parents become lawyers, agents, coaches. That’s the problem, and when it happens, you lose control of who you are and who you are.
“With this new generation, parents think they have become stars, they even talk about it in the newspapers, but who do they think they are? »
Zlatan in the text…
