Kylian Mbappe was unveiled as a PSG player this week (Picture: Getty)

Kylian Mbappe has discussed interest from both Arsenal and Chelsea after completing a move to Paris Saint-Germain.

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The 18-year-old striker had a sensational breakthrough season at Monaco last term, scoring 26 goals in 44 appearances, and was heavily linked with a Premier League switch ahead of the 2017/18 campaign.

Mbappe, though, signed a season-long loan deal with PSG ahead of a possible £165million permanent move next summer but admits a move to north London was a ‘real option’.

‘Yes, I met with Arsene Wenger, who is a great coach. He has a great reputation here in France, he’s well-respected and knows how to develop young players,’ the France forward said.


Arsene Wenger held private negotiations with the Frenchman (Picture: Getty)

‘This was a real option for me. But, of course, Paris Saint-Germain was the main option.



‘We weighed up the advantages and disadvantages of all the clubs but my family told me it had to be my decision and one I needed to make. It also had to be a long-term decision. So it was up to me and I decided to come here in order to develop.’

Kylian Mbappe met Neymar and his new PSG team-mates this week (Picture: Getty)

The teenager also lifted the lid on his trial at Chelsea as a when he was aged just 11 when he got the chance to meet both Didier Drogba and Florent Malouda.

He said: ‘It was a wonderful experience. Chelsea was the first great club, the first big club, that I went to visit. So it was a real discovery for me.

‘I was coming from my grassroots, amateur club. It was a whole new world.

Florent Malouda and Didier Drogba took pictures with the youngster (Picture: Getty)

‘Of course I had an idea what a great football club was like but I was really impressed by the working culture and the mentality of wanting to be better day-in, day-out and visiting this infrastructure helped me, actually, with my development.

‘I saw things differently because up until then I had just a French mentality and after that I could pick what was positive in other mentalities and build my own.

‘I got to meet some of the first-team players – (Didier) Drogba, (Florent) Malouda – the French-speaking ones and took some pictures with them.’

Kylian Mbappe’s performances in the Champions League attracted Europe’s top clubs (Picture: Getty)

Mbappe admits his experience with Chelsea as a youngster helped inspire him to become a great player.

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He added: ‘An idea has been reinforced since I was a kid – not just because I went to Chelsea.

‘I always thought: “I want to be there, I want to be one of those big players who is trying to give people fun out of the game.”‘

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