Mbappé responds: Did he regret it after Paris Saint-Germain won the Champions League following his departure?

Mbappé said, in remarks on “The Bridge” podcast, carried by the Spanish newspaper “Mundo Deportivo,” “If I had left earlier and the team had won, maybe I would still have some bitterness.”

He added, “But when I left, I felt I had reached the end of the story: seven years, during which I did everything, and there was no longer any justification to keep going.”

The French star continued, “We reached the quarter-finals, the semi-finals and the final… and even in my last season we played against Dortmund and lost, but it’s a match that if I played 500 times, I would win it 499.”

When asked about his former coach Luis Enrique, he replied, "He is a great coach who says what he thinks frankly. Unfortunately, his time with me coincided with my final year at Paris Saint-Germain, and my last season was like a roller-coaster ride full of ups and downs."

Mbappé explained, "I couldn’t really enjoy working with him. In the first month I was left out of the plans, and after I made the decision to leave, I barely played in the league during the last four months. I only enjoyed it as a football fan and from a tactical perspective, because I love the game. But in my situation at the time, I couldn’t truly enjoy it. He is a coach with great knowledge of football."

When asked about his role model in football, the French striker revealed: "My first role model was (Zinedine) Zidane, then Cristiano Ronaldo came after him."

He continued: "As a striker, Cristiano has shown every possible form, because he has multiple versions of himself and is good at doing everything."

As for Lionel Messi, he said: “It’s crazy… you can’t compare him to Neymar. Messi does everything perfectly.”

Mbappé went on: “I’ll tell you about a situation: we were training on finishing attacks in Paris. Neymar and I were the best—we scored 6 or 7 goals out of 10. But he took 9 shots and scored 9 goals that were exactly identical, all with the same precision. I was looking at the goalkeeper as if to say, ‘Don’t you see what’s happening?’ It’s excessive.”

Mbappé was asked, “What is the easiest position in football?”, and he replied, “In my opinion, it’s centre-back.”

The Real Madrid star explained his answer, saying, “You’re protected from all directions, and you can even play in a back three.”

He concluded, “It’s the only position where you see players aged 40 who are still playing in Europe at the highest level. As for a striker at that age, he’d be finished.”

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