This Monday on RMC SportJérôme Rothen let loose on Didier Deschamps and his staff. The former PSG player was annoyed by the preferential treatment that would be given to Kylian Mbappé, who was able to return to Madrid earlier after his injury. “This is not the first time that we are surprised by the coach’s choices. What bothers me is that it falls on Kylian Mbappé. Why don't other big players benefit from this preferential treatment? Kylian Mbappé, even if he is the captain, I imagine there are other great players. The proof with Ousmane Dembélé. The Dembélé case was completely the opposite with his last injury in September. It’s even worse for Dembélé. PSG had warned that he was seen leaving the match with a little pain in his thigh. He was borderline and very tired. Didier Deschamps and the medical staff acted as if they did not know. Dembélé wanted to play, in fact. I like consistency.”
He added: “if Dembélé had been at Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, Juventus, AC Milan, Manchester City, Bayern Munich, all these big clubs that Didier Deschamps adores and respects, things would not have happened like that. But PSG is different. The Mbappé case concerns me. When you see that you forced Dembélé to play when he had an alert and that PSG had warned, that you communicated a few days ago about Bradley Barcola and that they did not like that they communicated and that he arrived with an image, so there we had to resume by saying PSG it was they who made him play injured. And for Mbappé, who takes a small blow against Azerbaijan, he leaves the field, ok. I think he could have continued, but he came out because he had already scored. But he's going to play this weekend and you're going to tell me it's a big injury? Since he's going to train tomorrow and play, so the sprain isn't that big. It’s Deschamps and the medical staff that I point the finger at.” He then talked about the special treatment of Mbappé in the France team. He believes that the captain could have stayed alongside the Blues and followed the match against Iceland from the bench.
