Kylian Mbappé announces retirement from PSG: Emotional message to fans

Kylian Mbappé has announced his retirement from Paris Saint-Germain football club in a video message.

“Voilà. It’s my last year at PSG. I won’t renew my contract. My adventure with the club will end in a few weeks,” he tells PSG supporters in a video message that will last almost four minutes.

Mbappé, 25, is out of contract with the club in Paris and has been linked with a move to Real Madrid for some time.

“It’s difficult,” said Mbappe. “Very difficult. I never expected it to be so difficult to announce. To leave my country. The French league, Ligue 1. But I think this is good for me. A new challenge after seven years. “

“A lot of emotions are released. It was an honor to be part of the biggest club in France, and one of the biggest in the world. Here I had to learn for the first time to deal with the pressure, I grew as a player.”

He will play for the last time in front of his Parisian audience on Sunday, in the Parc des Princes stadium, in the league match with Toulouse. National champion PSG will also play in the cup final against Olympique Lyon on May 25.

Mbappé has been playing for PSG since the summer of 2018, after the forward surprisingly reached the semi-finals of the Champions League with AS Monaco in 2017 as an 18-year-old talent . Mbappé then won six national titles with PSG.

But the big goal, winning the Champions League, didn’t work out. Despite the presence of other stars such as Neymar and Lionel Messi. In 2020, the corona year, the final was reached, but the club lost 1-0 to Bayern Munich.

This season, PSG failed in the semi-finals for the second time, against Borussia Dortmund.

“PSG is a club you can either hate or love. I chose to love him. We’ve had our highs and lows. But I have never regretted signing up for this prestigious club.