The relationship does not date from today. But it has taken a little more depth lately, not in the choice of Kylian Mbappé to stay at PSG until 2025 but in exchanges with influential personalities. The player was thus in regular contact with Emmanuel Macron, the President of the Republic. “We talked a lot of times. Let’s say that was good advice. He wanted me to stay, that’s part of the negotiations, ”said Mbappé during an interview with several media including Le Parisien, organized after the press conference at the Parc des Princes.
“He is one of the various people I have spoken to about football! This is where we see that football has changed and that it has an important place in society. It is important to also know how to stay in one’s place despite the importance that can be given to me in the country, ”adds the Bondynois. “I chose to stay in my country. I am French and as a Frenchman I want to continue a little, to lead France to the heights and to pull this championship and this club ”, he had exposed earlier in press conference. On Saturday, the written messages multiplied between the two men, as the rumor of his extension in Paris swelled. The Head of State, who invited him at least once to dinner at the Élysée, was very proud of his final decision.
Mbappé has often had the opportunity to chat with the Head of State, who decorated him with the Legion of Honor in 2019 following the coronation of the Blues at the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Emmanuel Macron had also praised in January, in the columns of the daily L’Équipe, the attitude of Mbappé who, “far from the excesses” of celebrity, keeps “the head on his shoulders” and is committed outside sport “for vaccination” and “against violence”. “I am sure of one thing: he will continue to amaze us”, wrote the Head of State in a column published by the sports daily on the occasion of the release of the ranking of “30 who make French football” , whose first place was occupied by the striker of the Blues and Paris Saint-Germain.