Paris Saint-Germain's former sporting director Leonardo has criticised Kylian Mbappe and urged the club to let him go.
Mbappe's future at PSG is the biggest talking in the transfer window as he is not expected to extend his contract beyond 2024, which will make him a free agent at the end of the season.
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While the Frenchman has said he is happy to stay at PSG this season, PSG are reportedly keen to sell the player now rather than lose him for free next year.
Leonardo feels Mbappe is not a player you can build your team around and feels his time is up in the French capital.
"For the good of PSG, I think the time has come for Mbappe to go, no matter what," Leonardo told L'Equipe.
"Paris-Saint-Germain existed before Kylian Mbappe and it will exist after him. He's been in Paris for six years and, over those six seasons, five different clubs have won the Champions League (Real Madrid in 2018 and 2022, Liverpool in 2019, Bayern Munich in 2020, Chelsea in 2021 and Manchester City in 2023), none of which had Mbappe in their ranks.
"That means it's entirely possible to win this competition without him.
"With his behaviour over the last two years, Mbappe is showing that he's not yet a player capable of really guiding a team. He's a great player, not a leader. He's a great goalscorer, not a creative one. It's hard to build a team around him."
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