After completing his dream move to Real Madrid, Kylian Mbappe has revealed why he almost chose not to join the Spanish giants.
The France international signed for Los Blancos as a free agent after his contract with Paris Saint-Germain expired at the end of last season.
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His younger brother, Ethan, also left PSG following the expiration of his own contract, opting to join LOSC Lille instead.
However, Mbappe disclosed that his 17-year-old sibling's ultimate dream was to play for PSG, and he would have delayed his own move to Spain to see his brother truly fulfil that ambition.
"It's the thing that affected me the most. He (Ethan) didn't ask for anything. His Real Madrid was PSG," Mbappe told Canal+ per GOAL.
"What Real meant to me, his childhood dream, was PSG.
"At one point, I even told him: 'If you want me to, I'll extend [my contract] and you can stay, we'll stay here.'
"I would have given up my dream of Madrid and stayed for him."
The forward added that Ethan refused to stay at PSG due to how the club treated both him and his elder brother. Reports had previously suggested that certain individuals at PSG made Mbappe unhappy during his final season at the club.
This included a legal dispute in which the French league's legal commission, earlier this year, ordered the French giants to pay the forward €55 million (around £47 million), a sum the player claimed he was owed.
"Ethan told me… 'I don't want to stay here. What they did to you, what they did to me, it's not normal,'" the Los Blancos star revealed.
"If he had told me: 'Kylian, it's what I want.' I would have given up my dream of Madrid and stayed for him."
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