Sometimes, certain comments made come back to you like a boomerang. The most famous example of the moment with PSG’s new triumph in the Champions League is the declaration of Kylian Mbappé who launched in 2023 that he would have left Paris much earlier if he had only thought about the C1. “If I linked my future to the Champions League, I would have gone very far”.
That year, another famous player in world football should also have kept quiet. In October 2023, a few months after the arrival of Luis Enrique at PSG, Napoli boss Aurelio De Laurentiis made fun of the Parisian coach he had tried to recruit while PSG was third in L1 and second in its C1 group. “I can reveal that I called Luis Enrique in June but… luckily Luis wanted to join Paris Saint-Germain. Look at his results at PSG now. He did not convince me during our conversations over three days. » Three years later, ADL may perhaps regret its words.
