Se queda! For now anyway. While his letter, confirming his departure from PSG in 2024, caused a lot of noise, Kylian Mbappé said he was “happy” to “stay next season” at Paris-SG, ensuring that he had not “asked or to be transferred or to go to Real Madrid,” in an interview published Wednesday by Italian daily La Gazzetta dello Sport.

“I only confirmed that I do not want to activate the additional year provided for in the contract. With PSG, we have never discussed an extension, but I am happy to stay here next season, “said the striker in an interview during the gathering of the Blues in Clairefontaine.

Asked by a young PSG supporter on the sidelines of the Vivatech show in Paris, Emmanuel Macron slipped on Wednesday that he had “no scoop” on this subject. “But I’ll try to push for,” he continued.

Mbappé, courted in the past by Real Madrid, announced to AFP on Tuesday that he had never discussed an extension with his club, with which he remains under contract until 2024. This decision reopened all the scenarios on his future, including a possible departure this summer, to avoid leaving without compensation in a year.

“We are talking about Messi: he must be respected and, on the contrary, he did not have the respect he deserved in France. […] We will have to do what is possible to replace him,” he adds.

On PSG’s last season, punctuated by the title of champion of France but also by an elimination in the round of 16 of the Champions League, the 24-year-old player admits that “there were shortcomings that, sooner or later, we were going to end up paying.” “You have to learn from the mistakes of each season, so as not to repeat them each time,” he believes.

Recalling that he is “fan of AC Milan”, the PSG striker salutes the memory of the former boss of the rossonero club, Silvio Berlusconi, who died Monday at the age of 86. “It’s a great loss for all of football, he was an iconic president who built the great Milan that made me dream when I was little,” he said.

Mbappé is finally calling for a “turnaround” on racism in stadiums, after recent insults aimed at Romelu Lukaku (Inter Milan) in Italy and Vinicius Junior (Real Madrid) in Spain.

“We all have to get out of the field [when this happens, editor’s note]. If we go out, we will understand that the situation is serious. […] Complaining is no longer enough”, advocates the captain of the Blues, who wants “more solidarity between the players”.

“In 2023, we can no longer allow a minority to spoil the pleasure of football: beyond money and fame, we play to transmit to supporters the pleasure of playing and watching football. If you’re called a monkey, you don’t want to do it anymore, “says the player.