Arsène Wenger is a golden future for Kylian Mbappé. The Arsenal trainer hoped to take his compatriot to London, but failed: AS Monaco hired out to Paris Saint-Germain by AS Monaco and made the final crossing for 180 million euros next year. A year ago, Arsenal was close to the arrival of Mbappé, Wenger says at the press conference for the competition with Bournemouth on Saturday,”We were close to it last year”, the Frenchman agrees,”He was close to a switch to us, perhaps even closer than he was last summer. Wenger sees an exceptional player in the 18-year-old rush hour. For ninety percent of football players, the career depends on their choice of club, Wenger thinks, but for Mbappé that doesn’t.”He is one of those ten percent of players who can draw where they want and get a wonderful career”.”He can close his eyes and make a choice from Real Madrid, Arsenal or Manchester United and whatever he chooses: he has a fantastic career ahead of him. He is an extremely good player”, says the rehearser complimented. On the closing day of the transfer market, Wenger was also busy with the arrival of Thomas Lemar, former member of the team at Mbappé, but Monaco remained faithful to this transfer target. Alexis Sánchez did not leave for Manchester City, although it seemed like that,”It is difficult to talk about Thomas Lemar now, because he is still in Monaco. At the last minute, many things happened that I regret. Each manager knows that it is important that you don’t have players who are half of your team and half not”, stresses Wenger, who finally also deals with the ongoing disagreement between Mesut Özil and some critical old players of Arsenal. The midfielder recently called on them to’ stop talking’,”No one was perfect here. We should not concern ourselves with hostility. We are all happy with what these players have done for Arsenal, in the present or past,”Wenger says. Had Kylian Mbappé done well to go to Arsenal?
Wenger:’ He is one of the ten percent of players who can reach anywhere’.
