Kylian Mbappé (22 years old) is not yet guaranteed his presence at PSG this season. The forward has already communicated to the Parisian team his decision not to renew despite the efforts of his team to give him a winning project that will convince him to remain in the French capital. He did not play the Super Cup on Sunday against Lille and Pochettino could not confirm his presence on Saturday in the Troyes field either. in the match corresponding to the first day of Ligue 1.
PSG knows that time is running against them when it comes to renewing Mbappé. If the player's decision is firm, the only one who trusts in making him change his mind is Al Khelaïfi. The sheik resigned to losing one of the project's mainstays and has displaced Leonardo in the negotiations, to be the Qatari who takes the lead in conversations with the player's environment. The Parisians have tried every possible method to convince Mbappé. They have signed Achraf, Wijnaldum, Ramos and Donnarumma to reinforce the project (which was the main condition that it imposed to renew) and launched an SOS indirectly on the networks: on Friday they published an interview recorded in May in which the French international said that his big dream was to win the Champions League in Paris. Some statements that, however, rather than bring Mbappé closer to renewing have alienated him, annoying that the timing Publication of the interview may lead to interpretations out of context.
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Despite the multiple signings Leonardo has made in the summer, placing PSG among one of the best squads in the world, if not the best, Mbappé continues to doubt the Parisian project. Bondy's is not yet clear about the nature of the project, He also does not know if he has the ideal conditions to fully develop as a player and the economic issue has been displaced to the background. For money, Mbappé is not going to renew and the only condition on the table was that they guarantee him a project to aspire to the Champions League, a question that has been questioned in recent years in Paris.
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Although the French giant has played in the final and semi-finals of the European Cup in a row, the cracks have increased in the French capital. The problems between Leonardo and Tuchel, together with those he had in the summer with Pochettino, who came to ask PSG to leave to return to Tottenham, have set off alarms in Paris. Of the five titles that the Argentine coach has played, he has only achieved two (Super Cup and French Cup), losing the Super Cup to Lille on Sunday and sowing doubts about whether he is capable of leading a project of the magnitude of PSG.
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Now the ball is in the court of Al-Khelaïfi, who can lose one of the best players in the world for free because of his pride or, on the contrary, agree to negotiate with Real Madrid to let out for about 150 million to a Mbappé who ends his contract in a year and who is hardly going to renew before the continuous refusals he has given Leonardo during the last two seasons.