Kylian Mbappe backed Paris Saint-Germain team-mate Ousmane Dembele to fill his boots when he exits the club, after winning his fifth successive Ligue 1 Player of the Year award. (More Football News)
The France captain announced last week he will ✱leave the Ligue 1 champions at the end of this season after seven years at the Parc des Princes, during which he became their all-t✤ime top scorer with 256 goals.
Mbappe has been heavily linked with a blockbuster move to La Liga cham𓂃pions Real Madrid, but has thus far remained tight-lipౠped on where his future lies.
Either way, when he departs the club, the 25-year-old is confident 𒅌his void can be filled by compatriot Dembele, who arrived from Barcelona last August and has recorded the joint-most assists during his maiden French top-flight campaign, with eight.
"I have shared and played with incredible players, like Dembele who is here, he is a fri♏end and one day he will pick up this award," Mbappe said at the ceremony, where he extende♌d his record haul of Player of the Year crowns.
"I thank the club as a whole, the coach, who has helped me and ✤trusted me, his staff, the doctors, all the people at the club, the sporting management, the president, the shareholders of the club. I have always tried to do my best.
"Now, I'm turning the page in my life. Every♛thing that comes next is ♐super exciting, but that's another subject.
"I know that it was very important 🥂to my father th𒆙at I made history in Ligue 1 before I left. I think that, with humility, I have done everything [he] wanted."
