Despite legal row and PSG exit: Enrique full of praise for Mbappé | OneFootball

A lot has happened between Paris Saint-Germain and Kylian Mbappé. After years of loyalty to the French serial champion, the superstar ultimately moved to Real Madrid. Since then, the Frenchman has been in a legal dispute with his former employer. It's about unpaid salaries and bonuses. Recently, Mbappé celebrated a partial victory in court. The Paris labor court ruled in favor of the player, but PSG still has the option to appeal. 

In the course of this matter, the striker has repeatedly been labeled as greedy and a person of questionable character in some French media. His former coach does not share this opinion at all.

"I got to know a wonderful player. A person of exceptional character, the likes of which you rarely encounter when you find a player of his caliber," Luis Enrique recently explained in a media round, and continued: "Human, warm, approachable. He is a wonderful player. It's a shame he went to Madrid. Especially for us at this time. But that's life in football. I hope he is doing very well. I have nothing to reproach him for. He was always very polite and respectful. Just like his brother and his parents."

This sounds much more favorable than shortly after the mega-transfer in the summer of 2024, when Enrique suggested that "PSG might be even better without Mbappé." Fittingly, Paris went on to win the Champions League in the same season. 

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