“Mbappé will never be at Messi’s table”

Beaten by AC Milan on Tuesday evening, with his Paris Saint-Germain team (2-1), Kylian Mbappé failed to score or reverse the situation. Often less visible in the game than last season, despite his numerous goals scored, the Parisian striker seems orphaned by the passers that were Neymar and Lionel Messi. This is partly the observation made by Didier Roustan, who also expressed his thoughts on the player that is Kylian Mbappé. A pretty sharp opinion.

The journalist spoke about it Wednesday evening, on the set of the L’Équipe channel. “ Let things be clear to people, he is a player who is a crack in his field, who can be explosive, who has qualities. But football-wise, he still has a lot of limits. It’s not Messi. People need to understand. He is not at Messi’s table and he will never be at Messi’s table. If you see the actions Messi did at the same age, and even Messi younger, he will be incapable of doing them.“

“He needs to move his ass”

A scathing observation which continued: “ He can have outbursts, but you have to calm down when we say that Mbappé is the world number one. Obviously he has something more and is attractive. But this is going to be complicated for him. He needs to move his ass. I have already said it, he has always been protected, that is to say that when he came through, either he saved the affair with a goal, or if he got through, it was always Messi and Neymar who were taking. But this year it won’t be that.“

And Johan Micoud, present on the air, gave it another layer. “ I think that, for arriving in this situation this year, he is a little bit responsible for it too. Considering everything that happened, and having the team that is really focused around him. (…) He has been saved by his goals for months and months. People talk to me about the World Cup (2022). He’s not good at the World Cup. He scores and these goals erase everything. » Remarks which should pique the pride of the main person concerned if he were to hear them.