Kylian Mbappé, a Paris Saint-Germain player from 2018 to 2024 and now a 27-year-old Real Madrid striker, saw his former club win the Champions League the season after his departure. On the show The Bridge, the French international spoke about any regrets he might have.
Mbappé: “My book has run out of pages”
“If I had left earlier and they had won, I think there would have been resentment. Because I would have thought, ‘Damn, I didn’t make it.’ But I had reached the end of the book. In seven years, I did everything; it no longer made sense for me to continue.
When I made the decision to leave, it was because my book had run out of pages. When it’s like that, it means the story has to be written without you.” You contributed, you reached the semi-finals, the final… Against Dortmund, we replayed the match 500 times, we won it 499 times. In the first leg, I remember one play: I hit the post, he (Achraf Hakimi) hit the post!
This semi-final against Dortmund obviously haunted Parisian supporters for many months. Fortunately, this bad memory was erased following the victory against Inter Milan in the final the following year.
Having reached the end of his cycle, Mbappé preferred to leave PSG to finally join his boyhood club, Real Madrid. His coach at the time, Luis Enrique, had announced a “stronger” club in the capital without its star player, and that’s exactly what happened. With a strong and cohesive team, PSG was able to achieve its objectives. Now, history is written, and Mbappé has no regrets, only the determination to write his own story, away from the Red and Blue crowd.
That’s football; there’s no point dwelling on the past and asking questions. Of course, leaving PSG without the Champions League trophy is a negative point in Mbappé’s record, especially since they managed to win it right after his departure. The best possible response will be to establish himself with Real Madrid.
