Mbappe makes PSG pledge: ´I´m Parisian and want to win the Champions League here´

Kylian Mbappe scotched the prospect of an early escape from his Paris Saint-Germain contract by declaring he still wants to win the Champions League with his home city club.

The newly installed France captain signed an extension to his PSG contract last May, keeping him with the Ligue 1 champions potentially until the end of the 2024-25 season.

That staved off strong interest from Real Madrid in the player who went on to be top scorer at the Qatar World Cup, hitting a hat-trick in a losing cause against Argentina in the final.

For Mbappe, triumphing in the Champions League with the French capital giants would be the crowning glory of his career.

PSG went close in 2020, losing out 1-0 to Bayern Munich in the final, but they have been bundled out at the last-16 stage in the last two seasons, with Real Madrid taking their scalp last year and Bayern Munich their conquerors this time around.

“The next level? To win the Champions League, I think,” Mbappe told France 3 show Tout Le Sport.

“I’ve already made a final, semi-final, quarter-final, round of 16… I have done everything except winning.

“That’s all I need. I hope it will be as soon as possible.

“Where? At Paris Saint-Germain. I’m Parisian and under contract. So it’s Paris Saint-Germain.”

Mbappe also dreams of winning an Olympic gold medal with France, so it is possible the 24-year-old could double up next year and compete at Paris 2024 after representing Les Bleus at the European Championship.

“I don’t know if I’ll be there,” Mbappe said. “But, in any case, I hope to be there.

“Everyone knows that I’ve always dreamed of playing the Olympic Games. It doesn’t depend on me. There are a lot of parameters that come into play, and we will have to study them all.

“There is a club, a national team with a Euro before. So we have to talk before. These are all parameters that must be taken into account.

“But of course it would be a dream for me to compete in the Olympics, even more so in Paris.”