Had the intuition that Kylian Mbappe was going to stay, claims Ander Herrera

However, that does mean that the Ligue 1 giants could potentially lose Mbappe in January because he has less than 12 months left on his current deal. But that is only if contract extension is signed by then which is reportedly something the club are confident they will get done. Yet despite all the rumours, Ander Herrera has revealed that he had a hunch that Mbappe wouldn’t leave.

"I had the intuition that he was going to stay.  What the club had always told us is that Mbappe was staying. I asked him two weeks before the market closed and he told me 'I am here'. Everything I saw in the press did not marry with what happened here.  What happens this season may affect Mbappe staying,” Herrera told El Larguero.

"In football there are different types of leadership. There are those who talk a lot, a captain who encourages and then there are leaders who set an example. That is Leo. When he arrives in Paris and is the first to be in the gym, when he is not and takes the time to joke with others, that is an example of leadership.  Seeing that the best in the world does not cut any corners makes the younger ones say: If he is like this, we have to follow him,” he added.