On Monday, December 9, 2024, Kylian Mbappe shared an emotional story about how he nearly gave up his dream of joining Real Madrid to protect his brother Ethan’s career.
Mbappe, who joined Real Madrid last summer as a free agent after leaving Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), explained that he was willing to stay at PSG if it meant securing Ethan’s future. Ethan, like Kylian, also left PSG and moved to Lille as a free agent.
In an interview with Canal+, Mbappe said, “It’s the thing that affected me the most. He (Ethan) didn’t ask for anything. His Real Madrid was PSG. 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.”
He added, “Ethan told me, ‘I don’t want to stay here. What they did to you, what they did to me, it’s not normal.’ If he had told me, ‘Kylian, it’s what I want,’ I would have given up my dream of Madrid and stayed for him.”
