Kylian Mbappe’s leaving?

Less than five months after Kylian Mbappe signed a new threeyear contract to supposedly end the uncertainty about his future Paris SaintGermain are once again facing up to the possibility of losing the France superstarAlso Read Cricket fraternity extends birthday wishes to Gautam Gambhir as he turns 41Uproar in French capitalThe Qatarowned club sit top of Ligue 1 and their Champions League group but all is not well in the French capital with a raft of reasons given for Mbappe reportedly wanting away It has completely overshadowed PSGrsquos buildup to Sundayrsquos game against bitter rivals Marseille The speculation started on Tuesday hours before Christophe Galtierrsquos team hosted Benfica in the Champions League with Spanish sports daily Marca and several French media reporting that Mbappe wants to leave as early as the January transfer window Mbappe has in recent weeks let it be known publicly that he is unhappy with the position he has been asked to play in new coach Galtierrsquos system pointing out after playing for France last month that he has ldquomuch more freedomrdquo playing for his countryMbappe still scored his 12th goal of the season for PSG as they drew 11 with Benfica but it is believed he is disappointed the club did not sign a topclass centreforward in the close season mdash for example Robert Lewandowski who went to BarcelonaPSGrsquos football advisor Luis Campos told Canal Plus that Mbappe had ldquonever spoken to me about leaving in Januaryrdquo However that was before the investigative website Mediapart reported on Wednesday that an agency called Digital Big Brother DBB had worked on behalf of PSG to deploy a series of Twitter accounts with the task of boosting the clubrsquos imageThe work involved going after a number of targets earmarked by the club including a supporter slapped by Neymar after PSG lost the 2019 French Cup final and a woman who accused the Brazilian of raping her But there were also internal targets such as Adrien Rabiot mdash now with Juventus mdash and Mbappe himselfPSG board still hopefulldquoWe worked for PSG It bothers us for our reputation that PSG deny working with usrdquo Frederic Geldhof who worked for a subsidiary of DBB called UReputation told AFP PSG have ldquofirmlyrdquo denied the allegations that they asked the agency to work on their behalf ldquoWe were doing everything to get him to extend his contract We were not going to secretly troll himrdquo one source formerly connected to the PSG board told AFP of the claims Mbappe was targetedThe affair carries similarities to the lsquoBarcagatersquo scandal which saw Barcelona allegedly hire a company to smear opponents of the clubrsquos board on social media It may do little to help the relationship between PSG and their biggest star even if there is surely little prospect of the club agreeing to sell Mbappe in JanuaryAlso Read IndiaAus waala karwa chauth for Chahalrsquos wifeThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever