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Kylian Mbappe said no to Saudi Arabia nut Neymar is going

Brazil international Neymar has told French giants Paris St Germain that he wants to leave the club this summer, according to reports in France.

The Ligue Un outfit are yet to comment publicly on the matter, but the PA news agency are of the understanding that the Brazil superstar – under contract until 2025 – has not yet formally communicated his intention to leave to club executives.

It remains to be seen whether Neymar is part of new PSG boss Luis Enrique’s plans moving forward, but the report comes coincides with the club being resigned to either selling France striker Kylian Mbappe this summer or losing him on a free transfer next summer when he will be out of contract.

Lionel Messi left the club earlier this summer to join Inter Miami and, if Neymar and Mbappe follow him out of PSG, it will well and truly mark the end of an era.

The club are trying to shake off what their president Nasser Al-Khelaifi has previously described as their “bling bling” image of the past and work to develop more players organically rather than bring in top-of-the-range superstars.

Neymar was arguably the epitome of the old approach, with PSG smashing the world transfer record to sign him from Barcelona in 2017 for 222 million euros (£200m at the time).

He has won France’s Ligue 1 title five times since joining PSG but has failed to add to the single Champions League crown he won with Barca in 2015.

Mbappe, meanwhile, has been left out of PSG’s main training group as the standoff over his contract continues.

PSG sources are convinced he has already reached an agreement to officially sign for Real Madrid when his contract expires and benefit from a 160m euro signing-on fee as a free agent.

PSG are understood to have even offered Mbappe a new contract with a “guaranteed sale” clause in it confirming he can leave for a fee next summer, but sources say his representatives have refused to engage on that, or any other, offer they have made.

PSG gave Al Hilal permission to speak to Mbappe after the Saudi club tabled a world record £259million offer last month. However, it was reported Mbappe and his representatives declined to even meet a delegation from the club when they visited Paris.

Chelsea and Barcelona are also understood to be trying to put together player-plus-cash deals to bring in Mbappe, who won the World Cup with France in 2018 and also starred at last year’s finals in Qatar.