At the beginning of 2025, Didier Deschamps announced that he would leave the French national team at the end of the 2026 World Cup. Something that even Mbappe himself did not know: “He did not tell me anything. It's a personal decision, it's up to him. When I make decisions like that, I don't like to take people into my confidence, so I'm grateful that they don't either.”
The possibility of Zidane's arrival: “I don't know who will succeed him. I know who you want me to talk about, but I won't talk about him because that's not my role. There is a president of the Federation, and he is the one who is going to make that decision. Everyone is talking about Zidane, so we're not going to pretend we live in a cave and don't know what's going on, but it's not for me to talk about it.”