Kylian Mbappe has revealed he encouraged Ousmane Dembele to join Barcelona, and told footmercato.net his friend can “become a great player alongside Messi and Luis Suarez.”
Dembele forced through a move from Borussia Dortmund to Barca in the summer, having refused to train with the German side, he left Bourssia Dortmund last month to complete a €150 million move to Barca and become Neymar’s replacement at the Nou Camp.
Mbappe says he told his France team-mate that moving to Barça was too good an opportunity to turn down.
“We talked about his future and he asked me what I thought he should do, so I told him to go there (to Barcelona) because it was a fantastic chance for him,”
“We talked about it and he asked me what I thought. I told him to go there because it was a great opportunity for him,” Mbappe told Footmercato.
He continued “He can really become a great player alongside Messi and Suarez in attack. He’s really going to improve. He already has incredible talent, but he can make another step up.”
“(Dembele and I) have a passion for football. All that about ‘prices’ or whatever doesn’t worry us. All we care about is the pitch,” said Mbappe,
“We want to play as we have always played since we started football, each of us in our home towns. It’s not a question of value or principle, it’s just a question of passion, feeling, of that love of the game.”
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