French attacker Kylian Mbappe has hit out against FIFA's plan to play a World Cup every two years, an idea Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has criticised in the past.
As it stands, the World Cup is played every four years, the next edition of the international tournament to be staged in Qatar in December 2022.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino and other members of the world governing body are looking at making the World Cup a bi-annual tournament in an attempt to cut out 'meaningless matches.'
The plan has come under a lot of scrutiny from large parts of the football community and Paris Saint-Germain star Mpabbe has added his voice to the many against changing the format of the World Cup.
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"I'm nobody to say for good or bad idea but I gave my opinion," said Mpabbe.
"My opinion is the World Cup is the World Cup it's a special thing. Because it's something every four years.
"If you want to keep that special, and you saw like [how] I talk about [the World Cup, how] people talk about the best thing, the best competition in the world, if you have it every two years, it can be start to be normal to play [the] World Cup.
"And I want to say that's not normal.
"That's something amazing, something maybe you play one time in your life and and I agree with Robert [Lewandowski] when you talk about performance.
"We play like already 60 games in the year. You have the Euros. You have the World Cup. We have now the Nations League.
"You have so many competitions and we are happy to play but when it's too much, it's too much. We have to recover.
"We have to stay relaxed. If people want to have quality in the game, if they just want to see some games to see on the TV, of course we're going to play.
"But if they want to see quality games, to see emotion, to see this type of thing that makes the beauty of the football too, I think we have to respect the the health of the players."
For Klopp, the switch to a World Cup every two years is for one reason and one reason only - money.
"There is no other sport in the world with such a relentless calendar, no physical sport," Klopp said in September.
"There are more demanding sports like athletics and marathons but they don't run 20 or 30 or 40 a year.
"We all know why it's happening. Whatever people say that it's about giving different countries opportunities, in the end it's all about money. That's how it is."
