The money in football is really indecent

The star of Paris Saint-Germain, Kylian Mbappe, admits that the amount of money invested at the highest level of football has become "indecent".

The 19-year-old has become the second most expensive player in history when he made a permanent transfer from Monaco to PSG this year for a stated amount of 180 million euros.

His teammate Neymar joined Barcelona in 2017 for 222 million euros, which upset the European game and resulted in four other contracts worth more than 100 million euros, of which that of Mbappe over the next 12 months.

According to information based on documents emanating from the whistleblower platform, Football Leaks, Mbappe has applied for a five-year contract for an amount of nearly 55 million euros after tax when he joined PSG as well as various performance-based incentives that have been rejected by the club.

And Mbappe conceded that there were sums involved in the higher levels of the game that he could hardly have imagined when he was growing up.

"It's really indecent for me, who comes from a fairly modest family," he told RTS.

"It's true that it's indecent but the market is like that – the football world works like that.

"I'm not going to revolutionize football, I'm in a system, you have to respect it and stay put."

Mbappe was compared to the great Brazilian Pelé after a remarkable rise to stardom over the last three years, during which he won four major trophies in France and the World Cup.

However, the attacker insists that he does not try to imitate anyone by saying, "I do not want to be a copy of someone else. want to create your own story yourself and not a copy of the other.

"I think it's natural to have high self-esteem, even if, on a daily basis, you need that humility that is the strength of the big ones."

Despite his spectacular career at the highest level so far, Mbappe believes that it is important to retain a sense of childlike humor.

"There's no bad time to laugh, I'm always kidding, even five minutes before a game, so it's not bad to stay a bit immature," he added.

"There is so much pressure in football that a little joy of life, a little fun does not hurt in this environment."