Close to the Mbappé clan, Christian Jeanpierre looked back on the French striker’s eventful off-season, sidelined for part of the summer by PSG. An episode that pissed off his father Wilfrid.
What future for Kylian Mbappé? At the end of his contract on June 30 with Paris Saint-Germain, Kylian Mbappé has still not announced his choice between a departure or an extension. Except that according to certain sources, like the Parisian and of Foot Mercatothe kid from Bondy decided to leave the City of Lights to join Real Madrid on a free basis at the end of the season.
While waiting for the outcome of the soap opera, the L’Equipe channel is broadcasting this Monday evening a documentary dedicated to Parisian number 7, in which Christian Jeanpierre, a journalist close to the Mbappé clan, looks back on the complicated off-season of the 25-year-old striker. As a reminder, the former Monegasque had refused to activate the option of an additional year included in his contract, which would then have linked him to PSG until June 2025. A refusal which then led to the release The art of the French star’s group, finally reinstated before the start of the championship. An episode which had the gift of irritating his father Wilfrid.
“He wanted to plaster everyone”
“Angry (Wilfrid Mbappé)? Oh yes ! There was something there. It was hard there. I don’t think he lost his temper. I think in his head, knowing “Will” well, he’s a pressure cooker and he wanted to plaster everyone, but he didn’t do it. He didn’t go crazy at all, but there was something…”confided Christian Jeanpierre in an extract from the documentary relayed on social networks.
And to add: “There were false statements made by very high-level people. Totally false statements. And in these cases all you want to do is go out, call L’Equipe, and say “Wait guys, we’re talking nonsense about my son” and he doesn’t. didn’t do it. And I admire this phlegm, it is necessary. »
