“When I see that Mbappe is in Madrid… my stomach hurts!”
“When I see that Mbappe is in Madrid… my stomach hurts!”
Marco Verratti in an interview in which he reviewed PSG’s season and Mbappe’s future.
The situation
Marco Verratti, PSG midfielder, still remembers the Champions League elimination against Real Madrid and also awaits the final decision of Kylian Mbappe, the Italian international has reviewed the season of the Parisian team, in addition to remembering the episodes that he has lived with the club and his selection.
Mbappe’s future: “It will have an impact on the club whatever his decision is. He is one of the most important players on the planet at the moment, so we all want him to stay here. But when I talk to him, it is more to laugh. In football, when you have something on your mind, when a decision is close, you don’t talk about it much. It’s his decision, and I’m waiting for it, like you. When I’m resting and I see the notifications that Kylian is in Madrid, It gives me a stomach ache (laughs) Even though later he tells me: “Don’t worry, I was on vacation. We’re all waiting to find out.”
If he gives advice to Mbappe to follow: “No, because he knows what I think. He would not be a good adviser, at least he would not be objective. He would not think of his own good, but of the good of everyone here in Paris (laughs).
The details
The shipwreck against Real Madrid: “At this level, in the Champions League, there are games in which everything can happen very quickly. And Real repeated it against Chelsea and Manchester City. Madrid is a team that is used to playing these games and to suffer. Here in Paris, sometimes we forget that you have to suffer to win. And that is something we have to understand together: the players, the club and the fans. We are on the pitch, but there is this atmosphere around which means that we always have to win 3, 4 or 5-0. But football is not like that anymore. There are no longer small teams in the Champions League”. If he slept after the elimination: “It’s hard enough to sleep when you win, but when you lose… There are people who think that you win a lot of money and that the result doesn’t matter. But that’s not true.”