Kylian Mbappe has confirmed he defied his mum’s wishes to sign for Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool in 2017.The France captain burst onto the scene with AS Monaco as a 16-year-old in 2015, with Europe’s big hitters already circling for his signature.Mbappe showed huge promise at formative club Monaco, earning himself a big-money move to Paris Saint-GermainGettyTwo-years later, Liverpool were poised to lure the starlet to Anfield but faced competition from Real Madrid and Mbappe’s hometown club Paris Saint-Germain.If the decision had been down to his mum and agent Fayza Lamari, then Mbappe would have been lacing up his boots for the Reds.But Mbappe had other ideas despite having held a meeting with Klopp on board a private jet over the south of France in 2017.The plane took off from Blackpool before landing in Nice where Klopp met with Mbappe and his mother.Klopp then spent several hours mid-air trying to persuade Mbappe to sign for Liverpool rather than a move back to home city Paris.Inside Mbappe’s Liverpool snub“It was while I was playing in Monaco, I had to take a decision. And yes, I was close to Liverpool,” Mbappe recalled in an interview with The Athletic.“My mum was a big fan of Jurgen Klopp and the favourite destination for my mum was Liverpool. She wanted me to go there.“I didn’t listen because I wanted to play in my city, Paris. I didn’t want to leave my country before I was someone. “But yes, my mum was always saying ‘Liverpool – you’re going to be there, playing at Anfield, it’s going to be insane for you.’ I was like, ‘OK!’“She went there (for) the first step of the negotiations. She went to the city, she went to the stadium, she met the people. She was like, ‘It’s a wonderful club, everybody’s so kind, it’s a family club, a big club.’Klopp and maintained a strong relationship with Mbappe throughout the yearsgettyMbappe’s mum has served as his agent throughout his careerX:@mbappecentral“She went to Anfield and fell in love with it. She watched a few games alone, to feel the atmosphere, because she wanted to imagine me in this stadium.“All the time we were talking. ‘What do you think, Mum?’. She’d say, ‘For me, you have to go to Liverpool. I said, ‘OK, OK, OK!’ because Jurgen Klopp was an amazing manager. I met him and had a wonderful relationship with him. I had big respect for him.”Mbappe, famously spearheaded Monaco’s Ligue 1 title charge in the 2016/17 season, pipping his future club in the process.And it was then and at the age of just 18 when Mbappe fired in 15 goals in 29 Ligue 1 matches and a further six goals in Monaco’s run to the Champions League semi-finals.That was enough for big-spending PSG to agree an initial loan deal leading to a whopping £166million transfer for the talented forward who grew up in the Parisian Suburb of Bondy.Despite completing his move to the Parc des Princes, links with Liverpool continued.Mbappe scored 256 time for PSG to overtake Edinson Cavani as the club’s all-time leading scorerGettyMbappe, who was nearing the end of his PSG deal in 2022, was again touted as a possible arrival at Anfield.He later snubbed both Liverpool and Real Madrid to sign a money-spinning contract extension at PSG but later conceded that he was closer to signing for the Reds in 2017 than he was this time round.Is the door still open for Mbappe and Liverpool?According to French football expert Julien Laurens, a future stint at Anfield is not entirely out of the question.“He’s 27 going on 28. He will be 28 in December. I think I can see him staying there [Real Madrid] for a long time but then I don’t think it’s impossible to see him [leave] at some point,” Laurens told talkSPORT in May.“We know that Liverpool is the club that his mum loves. They were the team and the club that they watched the most and they were really loving.“It’s funny because all those of English teams tried to sign him when he was 12, 14, 15, 17. Some went all the way to Nice and parked the private jet at the airport just waiting in case he was not staying in Monaco and decided to leave.Mbappe has picked up a host of goalscoring awards at Real MadridGetty“They were all there ready to make him an offer. So, maybe one day, I think he would be great in the Premier League.“I think he’s got the game for it and he watches it all.”Breaking records in La LigaMbappe completed a dream switch to Real Madrid in 2024 on a free transfer and has gone on to score a staggering 94 goals in 111 games for Los Blancos.He is yet to lead the club to a major honour since his arrival, something he will hope to change under the tutelage of Jose Mourinho this season.Mbappe is in the running for this year’s Ballon d’Or having finished as top scorer in the La Liga and the Champions League last season.He also wrote himself into World Cup folklore this summer when he became the tournament’s all-time leading scorer with 22 goals.