France captain Kylian Mbappe said Saturday he is not bitter that Paris Saint-Germain won the Champions League the year after he departed for Real Madrid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t leave too soon; my story with PSG was over. I am not bitter; I had reached the end of the road,\u201d Mbappe said in a press conference ahead of Sunday\u2019s Nations League third-place match against Germany in Stuttgart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PSG crushed Inter Milan 5-0 to win the Champions League in Munich last Saturday, the first time the club has won the competition.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I tried everything, and it was destiny that meant it had to happen without me,\u201d said Mbappe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPSG winning the Champions League without me doesn\u2019t affect me. I was happy, I think they deserved it.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They\u2019ve had so many years where they struggled. I\u2019ve been there too; I\u2019ve played in every Champions League stage in Paris except for the victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey\u2019re the best team in Europe.\u201cI don\u2019t remember seeing a team win 5-0 in a major final.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mbappe has repeated his desire to win Europe\u2019s biggest club competition, but the closest the Paris-born forward got with his boyhood club was losing the final in 2020 to Bayern Munich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 26-year-old moved to Madrid in the summer of 2024 hoping to lift the Champions League, but the Spanish giants crashed out in the quarter-finals of the competition to Arsenal in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Real failed to win a trophy in the 2024-25 season, their first campaign without silverware in four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
France captain Kylian Mbappe said Saturday he is not bitter that Paris Saint-Germain won the Champions League the year after he departed for Real Madrid. \u201cI didn\u2019t leave too soon; my story with PSG was over. I am not bitter; I had reached the end of the road,\u201d Mbappe said in a press conference ahead of Sunday\u2019s Nations League third-place match against Germany in Stuttgart. PSG crushed Inter Milan 5-0 to win the Champions League in Munich last Saturday, the first time the club has won the competition.\u201c I tried everything, and it was destiny that meant it had to happen without me,\u201d said Mbappe. \u201cPSG winning the Champions League without me doesn\u2019t affect me. I was happy, I think they deserved it.\u201c They\u2019ve had so many years where they struggled. I\u2019ve been there too; I\u2019ve played in every Champions League stage in Paris except for the victory. \u201cThey\u2019re the best team in Europe.\u201cI don\u2019t remember seeing a team win 5-0 in a major final.\u201d Mbappe has repeated his desire to win Europe\u2019s biggest club competition, but the closest the Paris-born forward got with his boyhood club was losing the final in 2020 to Bayern Munich. The 26-year-old moved to Madrid in the summer of 2024 hoping to lift the Champions League, but the Spanish giants crashed out in the quarter-finals of the competition to Arsenal in April. Real failed to win a trophy in the 2024-25 season, their first campaign without silverware in four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-and-international-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25616,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25613\/revisions\/25616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}