It floats like an air of déjà vu around Kylian Mbappé. A year after his trip to Stockholm while the Blues were in Hungary to face Israel, the captain of the France team did it again by treating himself to a weekend in Dubai after being exempt from the last qualifying match for the World Cup in Azerbaijan.
To justify his absence in Baku, Didier Deschamps highlighted ankle discomfort which required examinations in Madrid. The Bondynois ultimately did not take any exam and did not even go through the Madrid box before going to the Gulf where he was notably seen in a padel complex. Enough to provoke the indignation of many observers including Jérôme Rothen.
“It shocks me,” he said in his show Rothen s’igné on RMC, adding: “It’s not even against Kylian Mbappé, I just blame the captain of a selection, whatever the selection. If it had been another captain who would have done that, I would have smashed him. »
Kylian Mbappé, a lack of respect denounced
“How can Didier Deschamps let this happen? Either it is in agreement with Mbappé, then he does what he wants. There is no problem but he needs to explain it to us, he continued.
Is Didier Deschamps capable of letting this happen? Because if he is not capable of letting this happen, in these cases, which he did not do when he was in Stockholm for example, I believe that he must have answers. »
The former Monegasque sees in this new escapade a “lack of respect” towards Didier Deschamps, the French Football Federation and his teammates in the selection. “It’s the French Football Federation, it’s Didier Deschamps who communicated, he has an ankle injury, he can’t play, so I’m releasing him, he explained.
He is captain of the France team. He therefore allows himself not to go to Azerbaijan because it bothers him. Some players who went to Azerbaijan, it must have broken their heads too to play a peanut match, when they play 60 or 70 in the year like Mbappé. A match with the French team, peanuts or not, it’s a source of pride to represent your country. This is no longer the case. The guy doesn’t even hide. »
