Kylian Mbappe, a star player for Real Madrid, has been taken out of an Adidas ad.
The 25-year-old French striker wasn’t in any of the Spanish giants’ ads for their new “Artist Pack” clothesline.
English football player Jude Bellingham is shown in one shot sitting on a sofa and modeling the new line. In the background, Real Madrid legend Roberto Carlos can be seen.
But it turned out that Mbappe was in the first picture because Bellingham shared a picture on social media that showed the striker behind him wearing a black Adidas jacket.
Sports Zone claimed that Mbappe was edited out of the picture because Nike didn’t want him to be in the ad for rival brand Adidas.
In 2019, Mbappe signed a 10-year deal with Nike that is said to be worth at least £14 million a year.
MailOnline has asked Mbappe’s agents, Adidas, and Nike for their thoughts.
It happened after the French star’s lawyers called the claims of against the football player “totally false” and “slanderous .”
They said in a statement that they were looking into an incident that happened at the Bank hotel in the middle of Stockholm, but they didn’t.
Unnamed sources told the Swedish state broadcaster SVT, as well as the newspapers Expressen and Aftonbladet, that Mbappe was in the case.
A statement sent to Reuters by Mbappe’s public relations company, Patricia Goldman, said, “A new slander is starting to catch fire on the web.” “These accusations are completely false and careless, and spreading them is not okay.”
“Kylian Mbappe will under no circumstances let false accusations get in the way of his honor, reputation, and honesty,”
Marie-Alix Canu-Bernard, Mbappe’s lawyer, told TF1 on Tuesday, “We don’t know who the complaint is against, and I don’t know if the complaint is aimed at him.”
“He is never by himself and is never in a dangerous situation.” He couldn’t have done anything wrong, because this ruling rules it out completely. There is no doubt about it. Even though he is calm, he can’t believe how crazy the media is. It’s hard for him to understand what’s wrong with him.
Canu-Bernard said, “He hasn’t done anything wrong.” He also said that Mbappe would help the Swedish court system if they were to look into him directly.
Afterward, she said that he was “calm” because “he hasn’t done anything wrong.”
As for the player, Canu-Bernard said, “He doesn’t know how big the media frenzy is, but he is calm and doesn’t understand what he could be accused of.”
She said, “He is shocked to hear that it could bother him.”
The lawyer said she couldn’t confirm or reject that Mbappe was the, as reported in Swedish media.
Canu-Bernard said, “We read the press.” The office of the prosecutor in Stockholm put out a statement, but it doesn’t tell us if Kylian Mbappe is the target.
“Therefore, I don’t have any information that would allow me to confirm whether this is, in fact, a complaint against him.”
It was Monday, and Mbappe shared a link to a French news story about it on X. He wrote, “Fake News!!!!”
Swedish media said that the leader of the France national team and a forward for Real Madrid went on a private trip to the capital of the Nordic country last week with a group of friends.
On Friday, Oct. 11, Mbappe and his friends left Sweden. Expressen and Aftonbladet both said that the next day, someone who did not want to be named told police about the claims against Mbappe.
According to a statement released Tuesday by the Swedish Prosecution Authority, there has been a report of a possible in Stockholm. The lawyer can confirm that this report has been sent to the police.