Now at Inter Miami, which he joined last summer, Lionel Messi is greatly missed by Kylian Mbappé at Paris Saint-Germain.
The two seasons spent together at PSG were not enough for Kylian Mbappé and Lionel Messi to win the Champions League. The attractive trio on paper that they formed with Neymar Jr., between 2021 and 2023, has never fully given sporting satisfaction, and no real complicity seemed to emerge between the French striker and his two acolytes, them close in life since their shared adventure at FC Barcelona until 2017.
However, six months after the departure of his former Argentinian and Brazilian teammates, for whom he would have campaigned internally, the 2018 world champion already regrets no longer having the eight-time Ballon d’Or with him, who left for InterMiami. “Not playing with Messi anymore, you still miss it”he confided in an interview with Prime Video, on the sidelines of the Champions Trophy won by the Parisians against Toulouse (2-0), Wednesday evening at the Parc des Princes.
“Playing with Messi was special”
“For an attacker like me who likes to devour spaces, with him you go with the certainty that you can have the ball. It was a luxury that only he can give you. But beyond that, playing with Messi was special,” he added. This technical relationship that he could have had with “la Pulga”, the former Bondy prodigy has not yet found it with his new partners, Randal Kolo Muani, Gonçalo Ramos, Ousmane Dembélé, Bradley Barcola, Marco Asensio and Lee Kang -in.
But Kylian Mbappé is not yet worried. “There are a lot of players who have arrived and for some, it is their first experience in a club with so much pressure, where the slightest misstep is watched and criticizedhe explained. They have to adapt but I think that now the club, the people here have entered into a new policy of giving them time, so we give them a little more time than in the past. It’s good for them, it’s up to them to benefit from it. »
