It is an understatement to say that Kylian Mbappé’s media release made Thursday evening after Real Madrid-Oviedo (2-0) caused some noise. On the side of the Merengue club first, with in particular the exchanges via media interposed with Alvaro Arbeloa. Then in France, where observers talk and talk about the captain of the French team. Regularly incisive when it comes to discussing the Bondynois, Johan Micoud has done it again.
Friday evening, the columnist for the L’Équipe channel spoke at great length about the case of Kylian Mbappé. Clearly annoyed by the behavior of the Madrilenian, he gave free rein to his exasperation. But he first targeted the leaders of Real Madrid and the direction taken at the time of the recruitment of Kylian Mbappé.
“On the direction (from Real Madrid)there is a strategy error. You bring him in, you don’t bring him in, that’s one thing, but you can’t bring him into this team which has just won the Champions League by explaining to everyone in the locker room: he’s the boss now. »
And to continue: “But how can you do that? You know very well that you are sending a bomb into the locker room. You know very well that you are going to create clans. The guys ‘wait, me Mbappé I’m going to follow him’ and the others will say: ‘But wait, I’m not going to race for him when we’ve just won (two C1s) in three years’. I find it mind-blowing. And we find that this is actually normal. »
Kylian Mbappé must evolve, according to Johan Micoud
After having mentioned the various significant public declarations of Kylian Mbappé, from the pivot gang with the Blues (September 2022) to his words spoken during the presentation of the UNFP trophies (May 2019) about the rest of his career at PSG
“or elsewhere for a new project”going through his outing about how if he wanted to win the Champions League, he would have been there a long time ago. “gone very far” from PSG (March 2023), Johan Micoud hit the nail on the head.
“All (these statements)I said:
‘It’s not possible that he would say something like that’. Well he actually continues. The guy, as long as he doesn’t understand that he will win when he has the guys with him, he will never have understood anything. The problem is that I am told that he is gifted, he is intelligent, he sees everything before everyone else… He started at 17, he is (27) today and it’s always the same story. So I’m sorry, they tell me I hit him (…), but I put myself in the place of one of his teammates. But I will go crazy. How can you talk like that about the other players who are with you? (…) If it does not evolve, we will talk about it in the same way in ten years. Unless he says he’s going to play golf or tennis. You will play alone in fact, you will do what you want. »
