FLORIDA (US) – Paris St Germain forward Neymar said he wants to stay at the Ligue 1 champions and hopes Kylian Mbappe will also commit his future to the club.
Neymar joined PSG from Barcelona in 2017 for a world record fee of 222 million euros ($269.26 million), however, Spanish media have time and again found links to the 28-year-old with a switch back to the Catalan side.
Mbappe has 18 months left on his contract in Paris and new manager Mauricio Pochettino has undermined reports that the French forward could be eying for Real Madrid.
Neymar, whose contract comes to an end in June 2022, told French television channel TF1, “I’m very happy today. Things have changed a lot, I can’t exactly explain why – if it’s just me, or something else has changed.”
“I have adapted. I feel calmer and I’m very happy here. I want to stay at PSG and I hope Kylian will stay too. Of course, that’s the wish of every PSG supporter… With Kylian, we have a relationship of brothers … We really like to play together.
“We want PSG to be a great team and I want to continue doing what I’ve done every day in Paris — play football and be happy. That’s the most important thing.”
PSG are third in Ligue 1, three points behind leaders Lille.
