Kylian Mbappe is leaving PSG at the end of the season (Picture: Getty Images)
Kylian Mbappe has announced that he will leave Paris Saint-Germain at the end of the season, ending a seven-year stay at the club.
The 25-year-old will depart at the end of his current contract, with Real Madrid expected to be his next destination, although that move is yet to be confirmed.
Mbappe will play his final game at the Parc des Princes against Toulouse on Sunday, with PSG finishing the season with away matches at Nice and Metz.
The prolific striker will leave PSG with six Ligue 1 titles and three Coupe de France winner’s medals, although without the Champions League.
He has scored an immense amount of goals, though, netting 255 times in 306 games for the club, before confirming that he is departing PSG and France.
In a social media video, Mbappe said: ‘Hi everyone, it’s Kylian. I wanted to speak to you. I’ve always said I would speak to 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, one of the best in the world which allowed me to arrive here, to have my first experience in a club with a lot of pressure to frow adna player of 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 the mistakes I’ve made.
Mbappé joined PSG from Monaco in 2017 (Picture: Getty Images)
‘First of all I want to thank the teammates, all the teammates that I had. 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, 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 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 it for seven years with ups and downs, of course but I do not regret at any moment signing with this prestigious club.’
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