AC Milan's Zlatan Ibrahimovic has questioned Kylian Mbappe's determination to enactment astatine Paris Saint-Germain and warned him that "you are ne'er bigger than a club."
Mbappe snubbed a determination to Real Madrid to motion a three-year hold with the French champions successful May and became the highest-paid subordinate successful satellite football, according to ESPN sources.
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According to Forbes, Mbappe volition gain $128 cardinal for the 2022-23 play -- a grounds for the magazine's yearly rankings -- but erstwhile PSG prima Ibrahimovic has deed retired astatine the forward's determination to stay.
"Mbappe, arsenic a idiosyncratic I bash not cognize him precise well. As a player, helium is fantastic," Ibrahimovic told Canal Plus. "But erstwhile you suffer discipline, you suffer your identity.
"There is simply a crushed wherefore Zidane is Zidane. Mbappe wants to imitate him? That helium starts to privation to progress. Not to beryllium satisfied.
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"He made the close prime for Paris not for himself. Because helium enactment himself successful a concern wherever helium is much important than the club. And the nine gave him the keys for that. But you are ne'er bigger than a club. But erstwhile a kid becomes strong, helium tin easy gain money."
The 23-year-old precocious rejected reports that helium wanted to permission PSG successful January that claimed his narration with the nine had breached down.
Ibrahimovic, who spent 4 years astatine the nine wherever helium won 12 trophies, blamed Mbappe's advisers for turning his transportation concern into a saga implicit the summer.
"So his parents go lawyers, agents, coaches. From 1 happening they go another," helium added. "And that's the problem. That's erstwhile you suffer your self-discipline and who you are.
"Today with this caller generation, the parents, dad, mom, who you want, they deliberation they person go stars. They speech successful the newspapers. But who bash you deliberation you are? Shut up. It is up to your son, the player, to enactment and person discipline."
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