Real Madrid president Florentino Perez confirmed that Kylian Mbappe has changed in the past weeks and that he was not the player he wanted at Real Madrid, and for this reason he preferred to stay in Paris Saint-Germain
And the Real Madrid president said: “His dream was to play in Real Madrid, we wanted to do that last August and they did not allow him to leave, he kept saying that he wanted to play in Madrid and 15 days before the situation changed.” The president in an interview with “El Chiringuito
He stressed that this is not the player who wanted to move to the Merengo team, as he may have changed his dream, in addition to clarifying that there is no player above Real Madrid
“That’s not the Mbappe I wanted to bring in, it’s someone else, who must have changed his dream. He’s changed, he’s been offered other things, he’s under pressure and it’s really not the Mbappe that I knew. There is no one in Real Madrid above the club. He is a great player, he can win more than others, but it is a team sport and we have values and principles that we cannot change”
He continued: “What does it mean for a child to be called by the President of the Republic, this affects him, of course, but he could have succeeded in Real Madrid as Zidane did, and be a source of pride for his country’s president, and as Di Stefano said, there is no one greater than the club, this These are the values that we do not want to change, and I still love Mbappe”
And he added: “To be clear, Mbappe did not come not because he did not want to, but was pressured by Qatar and the French president
He added, “If Real Madrid had asked for permission from Paris Saint-Germain to negotiate, then Paris Saint-Germain would have announced it publicly and the fans would have gone for it, but we did not do it so as not to harm Mbappe, and he could not say publicly that he is negotiating with us”
And he continued: “I think that his mother wanted him to join Real Madrid, she knows that it is his dream since childhood and he wants to achieve it. To him he was not himself”
He concluded his statements by saying: “He did not come because he did not want to, I do not see him in Real Madrid, but if things change, maybe something else will happen, life takes a thousand turns”
