Nasser al-Khelaifi seemed exultant in the saturday night, before leaving the Parque de los Príncipes in Luis Enrique’s first game. Despite the goalless draw, the PSG president he was more than satisfied with the new profile of his teamalready without Messi, Neymar or Verratti, and with Mbapp in the stands. His mood denoted that beyond the game, something had changed around its star. He commented before leaving the stadium to those close to him that with Dembel, the occasional reinforcement and Mbapp, (yes, Mbapp) things were going to go still much better.
And I had reasons. Have been 24 hours that have changed the course of things until this morning the club announced that the world champion was joining training. Such is the turn that the Parque de los Príncipes was preparing a summary trial against his idol for several weeks and nothing happened because things were already changingeither. Mbapp smiled upon his arrival at the stadium, he had welcomed his teammate Dembel in the morning, and his parents also circulated through the bowels of the stadium with another face.
Luis Enrique, about Mbapp: “I hope the club and the player reach an agreement”
An approach that began on Friday
The point is that PSG and Mbapp began to speak this same Fridaythe day before the first game of Ligue 1, as I already told yesterday BRANDand now the scenario that arises is very different. Mbapp will continue this season at PSG without Nasser al Khelaifi giving up an iota in his claims, who has remained firm in his idea of placing the institution above all, and in the case of Kylian, this happened because the player never leave Paris free, as he said the day of the presentation of Luis Enrique. This means that the two parties return to the starting point, that is, before Kylian sent his letter, making clear his will not to renew his contract. So everything suggests that the footballer will be able to leave if he wants next year, but with the commitment not to release him, so he will have to renew his contract. All possible formulas are to be explored, but the two sides now seem willing to understand each other.
PSG president has held firm on the pulse and the player, for his part, is seeing that the steps taken by the entity have gone in the direction he always expected. The reality, as MARCA told, is that after falling in the Champions League the last step was taken to work on a project around Mbapp, but the footballer’s swerve was not counted on with his letter last June. Still, the club’s policy was clear.
Messi’s non-renewal It already meant a change in the management of the club. It is likely that Neymar will go to Arabia, Kylian was ruled out of the tour in another coup of authority, young and team players, and French have been signed. The stands and the ultras seem to have also buried the hatchet with his ovation to the players despite yesterday’s draw to zero against Lorient.
More changes in the club
PSG insists that it is walking towards a change from the previous model, which includes the recent opening of the new poissy training center that puts the club at another level in infrastructure, and Qatar is going to enter timeshare. An agreement is going to be reached with a new investor, Arctos, who owns part of Liverpool and other large sports entities and who buy around 15% of PSGvalued at about 4,500 million.
TOhe Khelaifi closed the last 24 hectic hours this morning with a visit to the squad in Poissy. The PSG president spoke to the entire group, now with Mbapp as one more. “Kylian is back and he is dedicated to the club,” the president told the squad, according to L’Equipe. When leaving him, some fans cheered him. “You are the best president”, a kid said to him while signing an autograph. The fans already knew that Kylian was inside again. And that’s great news for fans. The soap opera has not endedat least until the next month of June.
