Kylian Mbappé has been named fourth in the hierarchy of PSG captains, after a secret ballot. A position that delights some.
First there was a show of hands. A few days ago, Luis Enrique organized this little sequence to let his locker room designate his captain. And it was Marquinhos who was chosen. But this Tuesday, a new vote was put in place, with some wondering if others could not have been influenced during the initial vote. This time carried out by secret ballot, the election of the Brazilian defender was confirmed. And in the hierarchy proposed by the players, Kylian Mbappé has largely come down and finds himself fourth. A position that some consider satisfactory.
After Marquinhos, Danilo Pereira and Presnel Kimpembe, it is therefore the name of the striker and captain of the France team who came in fourth place, just ahead of Marco Verratti. For Yoann Riou, this is therefore good news. The journalist explained it on Wednesday on the channel The Team. ” There were only five possibilities for players. So he finished fourth out of five, not fourth out of a group of thirty. For me it is a terrible disavowal, but I am nevertheless very reassured. Me, if I am a PSG player, I never name Mbappé captain.”
“Very happy that he is not captain”
And the observer to explain why he is relieved and ultimately happy with this choice of Parisian players. ” Mbappé is really the symbol of ultra-individualism, of frenzied individualism. (…) I am very happy that he is not named captain because he has everything at PSG, he has been doing what he wants for years, he appoints people to communication, he is the boss of the PSG. I am very happy that this group, which had five choices, did not take Mbappé. He is someone who, this year, must not be the leader but must also accompany the movement and not do too much.”
Visibly upset against the importance of the nugget of Bondy within the Parisian club, Yoann Riou ended with an example of what seems to annoy him. ” There is a scene that struck me and I was pissed in front of my TV. There was the obvious penalty for Toulouse (1-1, 2nd day of Ligue 1), and there Mbappé who is not captain, still comes to choose (sic) for ten minutes with the referee. I would have been captain of PSG, I would have said to Mbappé: ‘What are you doing here ? Go back to where you really are.’ (…) Mbappé, at some point, he has to take care of the field.”
