Luis Enrique is confident Paris Saint-Germain are better off without Kylian Mbappé.
Mbappé bid farewell to PSG for Real Madrid last summer after a seven-year stint with the French giants. The 26-year-old played an integral part in PSG's Ligue 1 dominance and departed Paris as the club's all-time leading goalscorer.
Many questioned how PSG would survive without the France captain, but Enrique confidently claimed the team would thrive. In fact, he recently doubled down on his sentiments amid PSG's first season without their former captain.
“I was very brave last season when I told you we’d have a better team in attack and defense," Enrique said. "I still think we’re better in attack and defense, the figures are there to say it. The players took it as a challenge.”
PSG already have a 10 point gap atop the Ligue 1 standings and have yet to suffer a single defeat this domestic season. The team has also bagged 54 league goals through February, only 27 less than the total goals they scored (81) last year with Mbappé.
"Of course we would have liked to keep Kylian, because everyone loved [him], but the team is responding very positively, at a spectacular level," he continued. "I told you that rather than having a player who scores 40 goals, I wanted players who all score a lot. That’s our aim, to keep improving."
