An expose from L’Equipe has detailed just how intense things were between Kylian Mbappe and PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi during his final year at the club.
Mbappe is currently in a legal battle with PSG over €55million in unpaid salaries after he left the club for free during the summer to join Real Madrid.
Mbappe initially rejected Madrid in the summer of 2022 to sign a new deal with PSG but it turned out his final year was optional, and he then decided to head to Spain in June this year.
Realising he wasn’t going to receive a fee, Al-Khelaifi missed out on possibly the biggest transfer income in the history of football, and things soon took a turn.
Mbappe was left out of a pre-season tour of Japan, and later revealed that if it wasn’t for head coach Luis Enrique and sporting director Luis Campos, he would have spent a season on the sidelines.
L’Equipe have now detailed the stalemate between Mbappe and Al-Khelaifi that came to a head in February 2024.
Mbappe reportedly requested a meeting with the club owner and president who told him that he wouldn’t play for Real Madrid next season, to which Mbappe responded by ‘laughing in his face’.
From that meeting onwards the president then demanded that Luis Enrique left Mbappe on the bench, something he did submit to on occasion.
It’s also claimed that Al-Khelaifi ordered that Ethan Mbappe, the younger brother of the France captain, wasn’t to be called up to the first team again.
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