Mbappe breaks silence in Pogba ‘witchcraft’ scandal

The French football wonderkid confirmed that Pogba has contacted him

Kylian Mbappe took advantage of a pre-match press conference on Monday to insist that there is no rift between himself and France teammate Paul Pogba despite his name being dragged into a witchcraft and extortion scandal between Pogba and his brother Mathias.

As part of a family feud that is the talk of French football, Mathias Pogba has accused Paul Pogba of hiring the services of a west African religious figure known as a Marabout, with wild suggestions that he wanted to cast a spell on Mbappe and see the Paris Saint-Germain ace injured.

Paul Pogba has said he was the victim of an extortion attempt, which investigators are looking into and which reports claim saw Mathias and Paul Pogba's childhood friends attempt to get €13 million ($13 million) out of him for protection, while Mbappe is said to have contacted the separate parties to find out why his name has been brought into their public falling out.

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Ahead of PSG'S meeting with Juventus in the Champions League on Tuesday, however, Mbappe revealed at a pre-match press conference that it was Pogba who reached out to him.

Furthermore, he denied that there any differences between the Les Bleus colleagues that could hamper their country's upcoming defense of the World Cup title they won on Russian soil in 2018.  

"I don't think it will alter my relationship with him," Mbappe predicted when completing his media duties alongside manager Christophe Galtier.

"As of today, I prefer to trust the word of a teammate. He called me, he gave me his version of the story and as of today, it is his word against his brother's word.

"So I will trust my teammate, in the best [interests] of the national team as well. We have a big competition coming up. He has some issues at the moment so it is not the moment to add to them for him and that's it. We will see what happens. I am pretty detached about it," Mbappe added. 

Kylian Mbappe is standing with Paul Pogba over the witchcraft saga