Clearly, this international break is long for Kylian Mbappé, very long… The announcement of his departure from the French group following a small physical problem in his knee had already raised some teeth among French fans, who had some suspicions about the injury of the number 10 Merengue. Then, the latter was seen in a nightclub in Paris with his partner Ester Exposito, which, this time, provoked the anger of Madrid supporters. Suffice it to say that once again, the new face of the On brand has been talked about for less than positive reasons. Rebelotte these last few hours.
Sunday afternoon, Kylian Mbappé published a story Instagram in which we saw him riding a bike, in a rather rural environment. All this, with the song of Michel Fugain and the Big Bazar, “The Good Guys, the Bad Guys”in the background. A somewhat mysterious publication, but nothing controversial a priori, and this publication could have remained anecdotal… Except that the Madrid press realized one thing.
Did Mbappé provoke Mourinho?
10 days ago, in an interview given to Bet It DrivesJosé Mourinho said his players should not ride bikes. Under no circumstances. “Unfortunately, a football player cannot ride a bike. Even if he does it while hiding from the club. I don’t care about his contract, I look at how seriously the player takes his job. You fall, you can miss 3 games, or worse, you can break a leg. Or maybe just a bruise, but that bruise is stopping you from being at your best.”confided the Portuguese coach. The connection was therefore very quickly made by all the Spanish media, and for many, Mbappé’s story is quite simply a provocation from the player towards his coach.
If it is entirely possible that it was a pure coincidence and that Mbappé did not even see the interview with his coach, in Madrid, he is not given the benefit of the doubt. The journalist Antonio Romero, for example, destroyed it on the Cadena SER. “Mbappé accepts being the star striker of Real Madrid, but he also considers that he can do what he wants. As no one at the club says anything to him, quite the contrary, he feels that he has more power. (…) He has to be careful, and I’m starting to doubt whether he’s really intelligent. He can never be the leader of the Real Madrid locker room. He doesn’t have the personality to be one, and he doesn’t want to be one. Someone should tell him ‘it’s not Mbappé FC here, it’s Real Madrid’”he said. Speaking on this subject, Juanma Castaño, a leading journalist in Spain, also had strong comments on the Cadena COPE : “the club does not see Vinicius and Mbappé in the same way. Vinicius Jr is a club player, Mbappé is not the management’s favorite player. If the club has to choose and sell one, it is Vinicius who will stay and Mbappé will be sold”. It remains to be seen how the Special One will react…
