Kylian Mbappe finally announces PSG exit and hints at Real Madrid transfer to link up with Jude Bellingham and Co

Hi everyone, It’s Kylian.

I wanted to speak to you. I’ve always said that I would speak with you when the time comes. And so I wanted to announce to you all that it’s my last year at Paris Saint-Germain. I will not extend and the adventure will come to an end in a few weeks. I will play my last game at the Parc des Princes on Sunday.

It’s a lot of emotions, many years where I had the chance and the great honour to be a member of the biggest French club which allowed me to arrive here, to have my first experience in a club with a lot of pressure, to grow as a player of course by being alongside some of the best in history, some of the greatest champions. To meet a lot of people, to grow as a man as well with all the glory and mistakes I’ve made.

First of all, I want to thank the team-mates, all of the team-mates that I had. All the coaches: Unai Emery, Thomas Tuchel, Mauricio Pochettino, Christophe Galtier and Luis Enrique. The sports directors Leonardo and Luis Campos for always accompanying me. All the staff members at the club, those nobody see, the folks in the shadow. Whether it’s the physios, the intendants, the performance team, all the office staff members, the ones at campus, everybody.

All these incredible people who give everything to the club and they deserve to have this recognition. Despite everything that can happen on the outside, all this media hype that surrounds the club sometimes, there are some real club lovers who want to protect it and make it shine and it’s great. And I know that with all these people, this club is in great hands.

It’s hard, hard. And I never thought it would be this difficult to announce that, to leave my country, France, the Ligue 1, a championship I have always known. But I think I needed this. A new challenge after seven years.

It’s difficult and of course there are some people I want to thank above all, these are the fans. I know I’m not the most demonstrative player. I haven’t always lived up to the love you all gave me for seven years, but I have never wanted to cheat, I have always wanted to be effective.

PSG is a club that never leaves anyone indifferent. We can love it or hate it, I made the choice of loving it. And I did for seven years with ups and downs, of course, but I do not regret at any moment signing with this prestigious club. It’s a club that I will keep in my memory my entire life. I will tell everybody, my whole life, that I had the chance to play here. And I won’t be a player anymore, but I will continue to watch every game of course, because it’s a club that I will always be interested in and I will always closely follow its news.

It was me with my qualities and defects but I tried to give the best version of myself during those seven years.

But beforehand I want to say thank you, because without you all I would have never experienced half of the emotions I felt. And just for that, I am grateful for life.

Thank you all. I hope we will finish this year with a last trophy. We are going to have good moments for what’s left and believe that you will remain in my heart forever.

Ici, c’est Paris. Goodbye.