From the victory of Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League, last Saturday in Munich, the club of the capital began a lobbying aimed at what Ooumane Dembélé won the Ballon d'Or 2025. Author of 25 goals since the start of the calendar, the number 10 Ile-de-France is among the serious contenders to obtain the prestigious individual reward.
Its main competitor on paper is none other than Barcelonais Lamine Yamal. Knowing that the Club World Cup has not yet started, Kylian Mbappé may still have a few chances of doing well. And some players from the French team seem not to want to offend their captain in the selection.
What Jérôme Rothen deplores. “Me, it annoys me this kind of political sentence. We know very well why Koné and Cherki hold this speech. They are young, they do not want to put the captain on the back, and that it is easy to quote Mbappé among the Ballon d'Or, and we also know that Cherki is close to Mbappé, so it's easy to light Mbappé who does not deserve to be in the discussion for the Ballon d'Or “, estimated the sports consultant on RMC.
Koné and Cherki subservient to Mbappé?
And the former attacking midfielder to prosecute his argument:
“Today, he is not in the same courtyard as Lamine Yamal or Ousmane Dembélé. If you are asked, you can be sincere. The lack of sincerity, it annoys me. If you don't want to be because it can put you in overhang with Mbappé, you boot in touch. We all know full well that Mbappé does not deserve to be there ”.
As a reminder, three criteria are retained by the organizers for the trophy awarded to the best footballer of the year. It is the individual performance, the charts and the fair play as well as the positive attitude of the player. One hundred journalists from a hundred different countries, representing the first hundred countries in the FIFA classification, participate in the vote.
