Looking at the level he is showing this season, one better understands PSG’s obsession with renewing Kylian Mbappé. The striker is experiencing a splendid moment in Paris, consolidated as the great star of the team and being decisive every weekend. Against Saint-Étienne, Bondy’s talent scored the brace and put the icing on the cake to his brilliant performance with an assist with the outside that raised the noisy stands of the Parc des Princes, who once again asked him to renew before the umpteenth exhibition of the present Kylian course.
Mbappé’s season is being extraordinary. In Ligue 1, the PSG player was equal to Ben Yedder in the top scorers table. With the transfer from him to Danilo, he also leads, along with Messi, with 10 assists each, the ranking of top assisters. But there is still more. With the brace against Saint-Étienne, Kylian Mbappé is currently PSG’s second all-time top scorer, equaling the 156 goals scored by Ibrahimovic and 44 behind Cavani. Can he match the Uruguayan’s record? We will know the answer in June.
Since December 7, Kylian Mbappé has scored 14 goals in 13 games in all competitions. His transformation to a total striker has been unstoppable. Two years ago, we were talking about a left winger with some difficulty shining in tight spaces. Since the arrival of Pochettino, Bondy’s man has evolved into an attacker with freedom to move around the pitch and with a tendency to make breaks in the last third. Tireless in his efforts, the feeling in each match with Mbappé is that he is a player who faces defenseless or defenseless defenses to counter him, since no matter how many players they put on him, he always comes out unscathed in duels.
The final stretch of the season is approaching and Mbappé is putting the vilo to PSG, who fears losing one of the best players in the world for free in June. His renewal is a side issue right now. The crack of the Parisian team only has between eyebrows and eyebrows to win the Champions League in Paris and then he will communicate his decision. Meanwhile, fans at the Parc des Princes have four months to continue reveling in a player who is on his way to marking an era in European football, if he hasn’t already started to do so.