Jean-Baptiste Sarrazin with AFP 17:34 pm, April 06, 2023

Kylian Mbappé sends a strong message to his management. While Paris Saint-Germain published a video to promote season tickets for the 2023/2024 season at the Parc des Princes, the French striker did not appreciate the way in which his image was used as he made known on social networks.

It is a new controversy internally that comes to hit Paris Saint-Germain. In difficulty on the sporting level after the new defeat in Ligue 1 conceded last weekend against Olympique Lyonnais, the club must now face the discontent of star Kylian Mbappé. While PSG has just launched its promotional campaign for next season's season tickets, a video published by the Parisian club obviously did not please the striker of the Blues. In a post published on the social network Instagram, the top scorer in the history of PSG said he "disagreed" with the use of his image.

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PSG's communication sends us a message!

@psgcvideosspic.twitter.com/V0H6iSCED7

— Media Parisien (@MediaParisien) April 6, 2023

"PSG is a big club and a big family but it is especially not the Kylian Saint-Germain," wrote the Parisian star after seeing the promotional campaign where he is featured. "At no time was I informed of the content of the interview with my interlocutor," he added, and "it looked like a basic interview during a club marketing day. I don't agree with this published video."

Kylian Mbappé on Instagram: pic.twitter.com/wxbiWCIpac

— Media Parisien (@MediaParisien) April 6, 2023

Mbappé trapped?

Upon discovering the video, Kylian Mbappé obviously felt trapped. The French striker denounced the fact that he was never told that this interview would be used for this specific purpose, knowing that other players were also interviewed. "That's why I'm fighting for the rights to the individual image," the player concluded in his communication. A message that translates the anger of the Bondynois ending with the word "cordially" revealing a new break between the management and the team.

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In the video in question, Kylian Mbappé can be heard talking about the fans. "The 12th man is what gives us extra strength to fight our battles," he said. "To be Parisian is to be proud, of what we are, of what we represent (...) and never forget where you come from." A well-prepared speech, suggesting a staging framed and desired by the management to renew the link between the PSG players and their supporters. Since the elimination in the knockout stages of the Champions League against Bayern Munich, the ultras of the club have expressed their anger like the whistles issued towards the Argentine striker Lionel Messi.

Without Neymar or Messi

The latter does not appear in the video. A choice of direction that is surely not due to chance. For several days, the divorce seems more and more inevitable between the leaders of PSG and the 2022 world champion. Paris Saint-Germain would not want to keep the Pulga this summer. The main interested party would also have on his side desires elsewhere. Brazilian Neymar also does not appear in this clip. So should we see this as a sign for the coming months? Would PSG have tried to convey a message through this promotional video for next season's season tickets? Other players such as captain Marquinhos, who arrived in 2013 in the club, was not retained to appear in it.

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A choice that was not to the taste of Kylian Mbappé. Only the promising Parisian "Titis" Warren Zaire-Emery, Ismaël Gharbi and Ilyes Housni as well as the Portuguese international Nuno Mendes appear in the clip, as well as the stadium gardener. PSG seems more than ever to want to refocus its project around the star of the France team. After signing for the Parisian club for three more years last year, until 2025, Kylian Mbappé has been presented with a fait accompli. Like a message sent by the leaders of PSG to keep his star as long as possible.

And this is not the first time that Kylian Mbappé has stepped up to the plate on the issue of image rights. He had already taken a stand to defend the individual rights of internationals in the France team. Contacted by AFP and the sports department of Europe 1, the management of Paris Saint-Germain did not wish to react immediately.