“If I linked my future to the Champions League, I would have gone very far”. Once again, the famous words of Kylian Mbappé made in 2023 when he was still a Paris Saint-Germain player are emerging everywhere. It must be said that the situation is quite funny, even comical. In 2024, Real Madrid won its last Champions League, during its last season without the Bondynois. Behind, for its first two seasons without Kylian Mbappé, Paris Saint-Germain won two Champions Leagues in quick succession.
It would obviously be a little unfair to summarize Real Madrid’s recent failures with the arrival of Kylian Mbappé, and the same can be said for the successes achieved by PSG since his departure. Major departures from the Merengues not necessarily well replaced, like Toni Kroos or Luka Modric, can also clear Kylian Mbappé, while in Paris, the arrivals of players like Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Désiré Doué or Willian Pacho can also, in part, explain these two cuts with large raised ears.
Mbappé is expensive
But on social networks, many fans did not hesitate to highlight the presence and absence of the French international as an explanation for the two reversed dynamics of the two teams. The words of Luis Enrique in his documentary, asking Kylian Mbappé to do more pressing, or when he assured that he was going to obtain better results without him, are also strongly shared. PSG supporters themselves did not fail to make fun of the Kikswith chants insulting him during celebrations in the streets of the capital on Saturday evening. In Spain in particular, we actually have a lot of fun. “It may be unfair, but it’s a reality: the curse of Mbappé exists”explains for example the newspaper A.S..
“Luis Enrique was always right: second consecutive Champions League without Mbappé”the newspaper goes for its part Sport. With his title of top scorer in the competition as a consolation prize, Kylian Mbappé left bad memories in Paris, is very criticized in Madrid, and will therefore have to take advantage of this 2026 World Cup to silence all his detractors and put the French people back in the pocket.
