Kylian Mbappé has decided not to extend his contract at PSG, for now – Liberation

2023-06-13 09:14:49

The star striker sent a letter to the Parisian club on Monday June 12 to indicate that he did not wish to activate the clause allowing him to extend his contract by one year, supposed to end in the summer of 2024.

And here we go again for the summer soap opera: according to the teamKylian Mbappé has let it be known by letter that he will not for the time being extend his lease at Paris-SG beyond June 2024 which, still according to the sports daily, has put the Parisian staff – in fact Nasser al-Khelaïfi, the president of the capital club, but that’s what we’re saying – in a black rage.

The facts: in May 2022, the Parisian star signed free (he was at the end of his contract) a new lease on the model of two seasons plus one, keeping the possibility of activating or not his clause for the 2024 financial year. -2025. This automatically ended on July 31: if Mbappé does not move, he finds himself free again in June 2024. He has of course decided not to do anything about it: unhappy with the last two Paris transfer windows and the weakening of the team, which the de facto director (Luís Campos) installed by Mbappé explains by the desire of the Qatari shareholders to reduce the airfoil, the player has chosen to keep the management of the club under pressure by (implicitly) conditioning a contract extension on the beyond 2024 to a change of direction in club policy. In the direction of increased competitiveness.

show of strength

Therefore, he had no need to send a letter since the additional year fell by itself in a month and a half: it is this gesture, between the formal notice (give me a team) and the show of force (it’s me who leads the game), which offended the susceptibility of the Parisian president and possibly Doha beyond him, which no one is able to say anyway. Basically, Mbappé’s position can be agreed: I was lied to last summer to make me extend (his “I’m just a playerdropped at the last UNFP ceremony had this meaning, don’t give me more power than I have), we are doing it to me again upside down this time since the “francization” of the locker room desired by the star has resulted for the time being in the arrival of three foreign players (the Czech Milan Skriniar, the Uruguayan Manuel Ugarte and the Spaniard Marco Asensio) and since my rating is not going to s collapse by spring, there will always be time to sit around a table then and see what is going on.

On the other hand, it is the form, that is to say the letter, useless from the contractual point of view, which pointed the Parisian direction. who, according to the team, brandishes a strange threat: a transfer of the player this summer, which would ruin the entire sports policy of the club since it is for the moment reducible to the presence of only Mbappé, erected as an absolute priority by Doha. The balance of power is all the more asymmetrical since Karim Benzema has left Real Madrid, opening a call for air for a Mbappé who has always more or less eyed the club merengue, even if he has already rejected it twice in 2017 and 2022. We would therefore soon have seen it as a publicity stunt from the Parisian club, anxious to credit the concept of taking over the players, sketched out with the true-false sanction having struck Lionel Messi following his trip to Saudi Arabia. Even a dressing aiming to make believe that the club keeps the hand on a player that it presses on the departure. It is an understatement to say that a reaction from Mbappé, always quick to regain control of his own story, is expected.