Mbappe: Real Madrid are a great team
In-demand Monaco teenager Kylian Mbappe lauded the greatness of Real Madrid amid growing speculation of a move to the European champions.
The new sensation of French football, 18-year-old Mbappe has been linked with some of Europe's biggest clubs, namely LaLiga leaders Madrid.
And Mbappe refused to dismiss a future switch to the Santiago Bernabeu following France's 2-0 international friendly loss to Spain on Tuesday.
"For now I am a player of Monaco, but of course it is a great team Real Madrid," said Mbappe.
"[Karim] Benzema is a great player. [Head coach Zinedine] Zidane is another great."
"I'm focused on Monaco and after we will see."
Mbappe has taken Ligue 1 and Europe by storm this season, scoring 19 goals and amassing 11 assists in all competitions for Monaco. He also started France’s game yesterday as they went down 2-0 at home to Spain in a friendly.
After a bright start to the game, he slowly started to fizzle out and was eventually replaced by Arsenal target man Olivier Giroud. Yesterday also saw the use of video technology to determine if goals were offside or not.
The first goal was scored by David Silva after Koscielny brought down Delfeou in the box. Bakayoko who had just come on misplaced a pass near his own area which led to the defender going into a rash challenge.
Then a few minutes later a sweeping move from the away side saw the AC Milan man tap home the second, a goal that was initially ruled out for offside by the linesman but after the referee consulted with his liaison who used video technology the goal stood.