PSG have stepped up their feud with Kylian Mbappe after removing a poster featuring the star and refusing to sell his shirt in the club shop, according to reports.
The 24-year-old striker is in a stand-off with the French champions over his failure to sign a contract extension at the club.
Mbappe’s deal expires at the end of the forthcoming campaign and officials, who believe he has agreed a deal with Real Madrid starting in 2024, are keen to pick up a transfer fee for their £250million asset before he can walk out for nothing.
In response to Mbappe’s refusal to sign a new deal, the French forward was sentenced to train with PSG’s ‘B team’ on Monday, Mail Sport revealed.
And now, it’s been shown that PSG have further stepped up their efforts to disrupt the star by stopping selling his shirts and taking down his poster.
A video appeared on Twitter, via GFFN, which showed that Mbappe’s shirt was nowhere to be found within the club’s superstore in Paris.
Even the shirts of Neymar – who recently expressed his desire to leave – and Lionel Messi – who left to join Inter Miami last month – are still on sale in the shop.
Footage then also showed construction workers taking down a large poster that featured on the side of the Parc Des Princes – which Mbappe was a part of.
The clip showcased construction staff working tirelessly to remove the large picture of the World Cup winner.
Despite a lack of Mbappe shirts in the shop, there remains a picture of the former Monaco forward plastered on the inside of the club shop walls.
Tensions began rising after Mbappe branded PSG as a ‘divisive’ club during an interview and stated that his performances are unjustly criticised because it is much harder to impress while playing in France.
‘Are people trivializing my performances?’ he told the outlet. ‘Yes, but at the same time, I don’t blame them, he says. In France, they saw me grow up, they see me all the time, at PSG every weekends or in selection.
‘And I’ve been scoring a lot for years. So, for people, it’s becoming normal. I’ve never complained that my performances are trivialized.
‘I’m young and I’ve had the chance to It was not that long ago to be an observer, before being an actor.
‘And myself, I trivialized what Messi was doing, what Cristiano Ronaldo was doing, what the great players were doing. We are in a consumer society, where “it’s good, but do again”.
‘And the fact that I’m right next door, in Paris… I think playing at Paris-SG doesn’t help much because it’s a divisive team, a divisive club.