Kylian Mbappe will come across Paris Saint-Germain a year ago for the first time since the French club leaves, because the Real Madrid revolution of Xabi Alonso will receive its biggest test in the semi-final of the Club World Cup of Wednesday.
Mbappe must be remembered as a PSG legend, who has spent seven productive campaigns there and eventually leaves as his top scorer of all time with 256 goals in 308 games.
Mbappe-PSG problems: Pre- and post departure
But his legacy was a bit infected by the way his departure, the feeling among many that he just waited in the last half of his time in Paris to move to Madrid, the club he had dreamed of representing as a young boy.
PSG, under his Qatari President Nasser al-Khelaifi, was not happy with the way in which Mbappe chose to conclude his contract to sign for Real in 2024, so that it refused a transfer costs.
Since then, a bitter legal dispute has continued between the parties, with Mbappe claiming that he is 55 million euros ($ 64.4 million) in unpaid wages and bonuses from his spell in Paris.
The newest turn came this week when one of Mbappe’s lawyers told AFP That the supplier of France had withdrawn a complaint about moral intimidation against his former employers.
File -PSG, under the Qatari President Nasser Al -Khelaifi, was not happy with the way in which Mbappe chose to conclude his contract to sign Real in 2024, so that it refused a transfer costs. | Photoredit: AP
File -PSG, under the Qatari President Nasser Al -Khelaifi, was not happy with the way in which Mbappe chose to conclude his contract to sign Real in 2024, so that it refused a transfer costs. | Photoredit: AP
That was after the office of the public prosecutor last month revealed that an investigation had been opened after a complaint by the player about the way in which he was treated by PSG in the summer of 2023.
He believes that he was set aside by PSG and made to train with players who wanted to unload the club after he refused to agree with a new contract.
Mbappe missed a pre-season tour to Japan and the start of the next campaign before he was finally integrated into the Luis Enrique team.
All that should have been behind Mbappe a long time ago, given the way his first season went to Real on a personal level.
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The 26-year-old, a World Cup winner in 2018, scored 43 goals in 56 games for his new club in all competitions until the end of the campaign in La Liga, a remarkable count.
However, Mbappe has endured frustration at the Club World Cup, not at all during the group stage because of a stomach bug, which led to that he needed hospital treatment.
First start?
In his absence, the young attacker Gonzalo Garcia has built up the step in an impressive way, started all five games in the United States and scored four goals.
The last one was the opener in the 3-2 quarter-final victory over Borussia Dortmund in the Metlife Stadium on Saturday, but it was Mbappe who got what was ultimately the decisive goal.
He came halfway through the second half of the bank and scored a brilliant, acrobatic overhead shovel for Real’s third of the afternoon in stopping time.
«He’s still not perfect, not 100 percent, but he gets better every day,» Alonso said after that match about Mbappe.
In the absence of Mbappe, the young attacker Gonzalo Garcia has drawn up the step in an impressive way, started all five games in the United States and scored four goals. | Photocredit: Getty images via AFP
In the absence of Mbappe, the young attacker Gonzalo Garcia has drawn up the step in an impressive way, started all five games in the United States and scored four goals. | Photocredit: Getty images via AFP
«Now he will have three days to keep going and to feel better for the semi -final.»
It is difficult to imagine that Mbappe does not get its first start of the tournament against PSG, the club that won the Champions League in the season after his departure after so many years of disappointment in Europe with him in the team.
PSG came to the US Fresh by Crushing Inter Milan 5-0 in the Champions League final.
It reached the last four with a 2-0 victory over Bayern Munich in Atlanta in the last eight-year-old that Willian Pacho and Lucas Hernandez would be sent and do not have to be really afraid.
«It doesn’t matter who we play in the semi -final. The only thing that counts is that we are there and that we want to reach the final,» said Luis Enrique, for whom this is also a special occasion, given that he spent five years in Madrid as a player in the nineties.
Alonso has just taken over as a real coach after an excellent enchantment with Bayer Leverkusen and has already shown great tactical flexibility, flittering between a central defense of four and a three-man central defense at the tournament.
It will be fascinating to see which system he chooses here, and whether Mbappe starts when he prepares to play against PSG for the first time since July 2017, when he was still an exciting teenager in Monaco.
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