“JI prefer to trust the word of a teammate”, explained Kylian Mbappé, indirectly involved in the Paul Pogba affair, who “called” him and “gave him his version of the facts”, he said. clarified Monday at a press conference. Target of extortion attempts amounting to millions of euros, Paul Pogba finds himself at the heart of an incredible affair. The name of French football star Kylian Mbappé reluctantly appears in the file, Paul Pogba having explained to investigators that “his blackmailers wanted to discredit him by broadcasting messages in which he allegedly asked a marabout from his family circle to cast a spell” on the PSG striker, which he denies.
“It’s his word against his brother’s (Mathias), I’m going to trust his word, in the interest of the France team,” added Mbappé, who was speaking ahead of the Champions League match. against Juventus Turin, Tuesday (9 p.m.). “I’ll see how it goes, but I’m pretty detached from it all,” he commented. Asked whether this affair could deteriorate his relationship with Paul Pogba, Mbappé replied: “No. Today, I prefer to trust the word of a teammate, he called me and gave me his version of the facts. Mbappé “shows no sign of annoyance or concern,” PSG coach Christophe Galtier assured last Tuesday.
During a second hearing with investigators, Paul Pogba denied having hired a marabout to cast a spell on Mbappé, according to France Info. The Paris prosecutor’s office on Friday opened a judicial investigation into the extortion denounced by the star of the French football team and Juventus Turin. According to previous information from France Info, confirmed to Agence France-Presse by a source familiar with the matter, Paul Pogba had told investigators, during a first hearing, that he had been trapped by childhood friends and two hooded men. , armed with assault rifles, blaming him for not helping them financially. A sum of 13 million euros would have been claimed from him, and he claims to have paid 100,000 euros. Among the suspects, he claims to have recognized his older brother Mathias.
Pogba will have surgery
In the press conference at Paris opponents Juventus, coach Massimiliano Allegri announced that “Pogba went out this morning to train but he stopped and decided to have surgery,” Allegri said, on the eve of the match against PSG in the Champions League. Affected in the knee in July, Pogba had, at first, decided not to have surgery to keep his chances of competing in the World Cup intact and had just resumed the race in training.