Paris Saint-Germain appears to have confirmed Kylian Mbappe's exit from the club, as picked up on by ... [+]
Paris Saint-Germain appears to have indirectly confirmed Kylian Mbappe's exit from the club, as picked up on by attentive social media users.
Mbappe is coming up to completing seven years in the French capital after joining the Ligue 1 giants from Monaco in 2017 as the world's most expensive teenager.
He then went on to become one of the biggest stars in the sport, which has attracted the attention of Real Madrid on more than one occasion.
In 2022, Mbappe came close to joining Los Blancos on a free transfer only to snub them at the altar and extend his terms with PSG.
His new deal was only valid for two years with an optional season, however, meaning that the scorer of a hat trick in the Qatar 2022 World Cup final is again up for grabs next month when his terms expire on June 30.
Earlier in 2024, The Athletic reported that Mbappe told PSG he will not renew and finally exit stage left from the Parc des Princes ahead of next season.
It is widely expected that he will finally join Real Madrid and become President Florentino Perez's next Galactico, though nothing official has yet been announced on that.
According to OK Diario, the player and his prospective new club don't agree on when to make the move public, with Mbappe's mother preferring him to keep quiet until the end of the ongoing French club campaign at least to eliminate the risk of angering PSG's fervent ultras.
Mbappe reportedly planned to do this if and when his current employers were eliminated from the Champions League, which is something that came to pass this week when Dortmund beat them 1-0 to secure a 2-0 aggregate victory plus a date with Madrid for a Wembley decider on June 1.
Instead, however, Madrid wants Mbappe to wait until it has potentially wrapped up a record-extending 15th UCL crown with a communicado and presentation worked around the European Championships.
In any event, it seems that PSG might already be resigned to losing Mbappe as noticed by X onlookers ahead of the weekend.
The club released a short clip to promote its new home kit for the 2024/2025 season with the forward nowhere to be seen.
Instead, stars such as Marquinhos, Nuno Mendes, Vitinha and Warren Zaire-Emery take top billing and must probably now move on together without PSG's all-time top scorer under Luis Enrique.
