Kylian Mbappé is experiencing turbulence, surely the most shaking of his young career. Between his bitter (but not failed) debut in Madrid, his legal squabbles with PSG, his last two missed meetings with the French team for reasons that remain obscure, or even the controversy born from his Swedish escapade in October (his involvement in the investigation opened in Sweden for rape has still not been proven), the 2018 world champion is talking about him, which he is used to from the start, but for once, not necessarily for the good reasons.
For his information, the ex-Parisian has not always been spared by the press, both national and international, for whom he is a stooge, sometimes even a business. This was also the tone of his remarks in an extract from his interview given to Click this Sunday to reestablish his truth, his own: “when you’re a star, if you don’t speak, people speak for you. Because we need to talk about you. Every day there are things that I haven’t talked to anyone about. So, I’m going to speak, because after a while, people have to hear, you have to speak”he declared. In the long version of this interview, Mbappé was inevitably also invited to comment on his debut in Spain. And he knows it too well: the truth of yesterday is not the truth of today, especially in football where there is a tendency to desecrate what has already been done.
Mbappé admits that he is not yet giving his full measure
“Since I was 14, everyone told me I was going to be big. But when you’re big, sometimes you feel small. The football crowd is very versatile. It’s good or it’s not good, it’s always the same question”confided the former PSG striker in relation to the criticism he has received in recent months. But he also admitted that he is not yet giving his best version in Madrid: “It’s not the best start to the season, but we’re getting ready for the trophies that will count. We have already won the European Super Cup. It’s not up to what we expected, but at Real, we expect you in the second half of the season. This is where you will be judged.”.
Image generation in progress
Although he says he doesn’t necessarily pay attention to criticism, Mbappé admits to being impacted by a domino effect, via those close to him. But he assures that he has not fallen into depression: “the critics? It’s more of a boomerang effect, when it hits your loved ones. I have no contact with French television here. I don’t look. It’s more my loved ones who watch and talk to me about it. I really wanted to discover something here. I put my focus on that, he revealed, and to continue on his last months following the Euro. I had times when I was tired, but I wasn’t depressed. There are people who are really depressed, we need to help them. It’s just that at one point I felt exhausted. I didn’t have any periods of rest, I had sporting disappointments“. Waiting to find glory in Madrid.
