The debate has been raging since this weekend and the end of the season in La Liga: Kylian Mbappé has, yes or no, succeeding his first year at Real Madrid? If his personal statistics speak in his favor, with 43 goals scored in all competitions and the European gold shoe, the collective assessment is quite thin for the French striker (26 years old), who must be satisfied with an UEFA supercup and an intercontinental cup.
For Michel Platini, it is not necessary to be fine with “Kyks”, who arrived free to the White House last summer from PSG. “Mbappé is a phenomenal boy, he scored 42 goals in Spain (43 in reality, editor's note), he won the Golden Soulier, he is the top scorer in Europe. It means that he played well ”, Coldly summarizes the triple Ballon d'Or, interviewed at a press conference during a charity event organized in Turin.
“Kylian Mbappé is a phenomenon”
“He is playing for a team that has not made a big season. Real Madrid also ages a little and Carlo Ancelotti had arrived at the end of a cyclerecalls the old n ° 10 of the Blues. To me too, I happened to be the top scorer of the season and to finish second in the championship … Mbappé is a phenomenon, it is an attacker who marks. »» And for him, that's all that should count on the time of doing the accounts.
“Do not ask him to play the Messi, the Modric, the Platini or the Zidane. He is an attacker who marks. Afterwards, a center-forward, not a center-forward … When an attacker marks, it's the most importanthe believes. Now you have to know one thing: either you train a team for him, or you train a team to play well. This is all the difficulty. But with Mbappé, we are more likely to win than to lose. »»
