Kylian Mbappe admits ‘I was in talks to join Jurgen Klopp’ and that his ‘mum loves Liverpool’ with talks beginning ‘five years ago’ | OneFootball

Kylian Mbappe has settled his future by signing an extension with PSG but has now admitted how close a move to Liverpool was.

Speaking with the Telegraph (via Fabrizio Romano), the 23-year-old said: “It was not just Real Madrid and PSG – I was in talks to join Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool.

“I talked to Liverpool because it’s the favourite club of my mum, my mum loves Liverpool… I don’t know why, you will have to ask her!

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“It’s a good club and we met them five years ago. When I was in Monaco I met them. It’s a big club”.

It’s interesting that all these rumours did appear to have some degree of truth to them and that we were actually a possibility for the French international.

If we would have managed to convicne him to move whilst he was with Monaco, it may have been a slightly more realistic transfer but now it does appear that the forward will always be out of our price range.

Let’s hope his Mum can keep putting a good word in for us and we may get to see the World Cup winner at Anfield one day.

You can view the quotes from Mbappe via @FabrizioRomano on Twitter:

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