Very close to Kylian Mbappé, Thierry Henry welcomed, for French football, the contract extension of PSG No. 7: “Obviously Kylian decided to stay. It’s huge for French football. I thought he was going to leave, I think everyone thought he was going to leave, including himself. I think he changed his mind. I don’t know exactly what made him change his mind. There must have been something deep in some discussions. I saw some people calling him. Apparently when the president called him to stay, it was crazy.”
The former Arsenal player believes in the columns of Goal that if Mbappé is going to win a lot of agent, it would have been the case everywhere, which makes him think that it was not the most important in the decision-making of KM7: “hopefully this shows where PSG want to go because normally one thing is certain: when you play for a big club you don’t walk away from a big club; the big club gets rid of you when you’re old. When you’re still in your prime, you don’t leave. He decided to stay. He has the club, obviously, in his heart. People will talk about what he’s going to get in terms of money and power, but I like to think that if you think about something that long, the money would have come anywhere anyway, wherever. ‘he goes, but he wanted to stay’