FRANCK FIFE / AFP France’s midfielder Paul Pogba speaks with France’s forward Kylian Mbappe (R) attends a training session at the team’s base camp in Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines on June 11, 2021 during the UEFA EURO 2020 football competition. (Photo by FRANCK FIFE / AFP) FRANCK FIFE / AFP Paul Pogba and Kylian Mbappé (here during a training session in June 2021) discussed the Pogba affair. FOOTBALL – This is enough to bring some serenity around the French football team two months before the World Cup in Qatar. Ten days after the explosion of the Pogba affair, Kylian Mbappé assured this Monday, September 5 that he “trusted his teammate” Paul Pogba. “He called me, gave me his version of the facts. Today it’s his word against his brother’s. In the interest of the selection, I trust my team-mate, “said the PSG striker during a press conference on the eve of the club’s entry into the Champions League. “I’ll see how it goes, but I’m pretty detached from it all,” added the star. Reminder of the facts for those who are wondering what Kylian Mbappé is doing in this case which concerns the Pogba family. At the end of August, Mathias Pogba, one of Paul’s brothers, broadcast a video in which he says he is preparing to make revelations about the midfielder of the France team. The latter who lodged a complaint (claiming to be the victim of attempted extortion of several million euros) explained to the investigators that blackmailers threatened to discredit him by publishing messages in which he would ask a marabout to throw a comes out on his teammate with whom he was world champion in 2018. During a second hearing before the investigators, Paul Pogba explained that if he actually gave money to a marabout for a humanitarian association helping children in Africa, and not to “marabout” Kylian Mbappé. Currently injured, Paul Pogba should not replay in the France team before the World Cup in Qatar which will begin at the end of November. See also on The HuffPost: Mbappé stays at PSG, Parisian supporters exult You cannot view this content because you have refused the cookies associated with content from third parties. If you want to view this content, you can change your choices.