Kylian Mbappé knows the circuit too much so as not to measure the effects of a course in
Champions League in an odd year. Without World Cup, without Euro, the success of a season is largely measured in a champions League course. 2025 will not derogate from the rule.
When he was questioned a few weeks ago about his priority goal, the captain of the French team said he preferred to win the Champions League with Real Madrid rather than the Ballon d'Or France Football. Because he knows full well that the collective coronation leads to the individual distinction. Not the other way around.
Mbappé loses big.
The premature elimination of Real from the quarterfinals of this C1 edition therefore sounds like a resounding failure for Kylian Mbappé, arrived last summer in a team that had just been sacred, all by abandoning a club which is still in the running …
Mbappé excluded from the race
If it is still too early to draw plans on the comet, Kylian Mbappé now leaves with a considerable handicap in the Golden Ball race. A track with the stars on which his lifelong friend Ousmane Dembélé is well committed, as are the two Barcelonais Lamine Yamal and Raphinha.
On the other hand, other natural candidates for the supreme award have been dismissed for the same reasons as Mbappé. Mohamed Salah, author of a breathtaking season with Liverpool, should pay the end of the Reds from the round of 16. Harry Kane, the trickery of Bayern Munich, also seems out of the way after the exit of the German club.
