{"id":28500,"date":"2022-05-23T17:26:54","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T17:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=28500"},"modified":"2022-05-23T17:26:54","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T17:26:54","slug":"french-president-asked-mbappe-to-stay-at-psg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2022\/05\/23\/french-president-asked-mbappe-to-stay-at-psg\/","title":{"rendered":"French president asked Mbappe to stay at PSG"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kylian Mbappe made the startling revelation Monday that he had talked over his potential transfer to Real Madrid with Emmanuel Macron, saying he appreciated the \u201cgood advice\u201d of the French president, who wanted the Paris Saint-Germain star to stay in France.<\/p>\n

World Cup winner Mbappe had for months seemed certain to sign for Real Madrid before being persuaded to sign a new three-year deal at PSG, the club he joined in 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe talked quite a bit,\u201d Mbappe said of his exchanges with Macron. \u201cYou can say that it was good advice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cHe wanted me to stay, that\u2019s part of the negotiations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mbappe said that Macron was one of a number of different people to whom he had talked.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s then that you see that football has changed and has an important place in society. It\u2019s important to also know how to stay in one\u2019s place despite the importance that can be given to me in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

With that in mind, Mbappe also revealed that PSG would not block him from playing in the 2024 Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Paris-born Mbappe was raised in the northeastern Parisian surburb of Bondy, part of the Seine-Saint-Denis department that is home to not only the Stade de France, but also several other Olympic sites including the Olympic Village.<\/p>\n

There is no doubt that the potential participation of a star-quality, home-grown talent in the Summer Games would be a massive boost for organisers.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst of all I have to be picked,\u201d Mbappe said of the possibility of taking part in Paris 2024. \u201cWe talked about it with the club.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe club are not against it, they are for it. There weren\u2019t any problems with regard to that in negotiations.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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There has been speculation that as well as a gigantic, undisclosed financial package, PSG\u2019s Qatari owners had persuaded Mbappe to remain with his hometown club by agreeing to give the 23-year-old forward some say in which players to sign for next season.<\/p>\n

Mbappe however denied any such agreement had been made.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI remain a footballer, who is part of a team, and I will not go beyond this role. I won\u2019t go beyond my role as a player,\u201d he said at a press conference seated alongside PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cEveryone knows that last year, I wanted to leave and I was convinced that it was the best choice, but the years go by and things change.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am French and there is this sentimental side to leaving my country which would have been difficult.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe project has changed, my club wants to build a new sporting ambition and I think there are other great stories to write here, that\u2019s what matters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hours after Mbappe announced on Saturday that he was staying at the club came the news that PSG\u2019s powerful sporting director Leonardo — heavily criticised by supporters — had been sacked.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kylian Mbappe made the startling revelation Monday that he had talked over his potential transfer to Real Madrid with Emmanuel Macron, saying he appreciated the “good advice” of the French president, who wanted the Paris Saint-Germain star to stay in France. World Cup winner Mbappe had for months seemed certain to sign for Real Madrid before being persuaded to sign a new three-year deal at PSG, the club he joined in 2017. “We talked quite a bit,” Mbappe said of his exchanges with Macron. “You can say that it was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":28501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28502,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28500\/revisions\/28502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}