Asked about the reunion between Ousmane Dembélé and Kylian Mbappé this Monday at Clairefontaine, Dayot Upamecano preferred not to fuel the battle for the Ballon d’Or. The French defender, present among the twelve players who participated in the session under the orders of Zinédine Zidane and David Bettoni, while Dembélé and Mbappé remained in the room, simply mentioned the first training of the new era of the Blues.
“Above all, we had fun. Today it was more about adaptation, also to welcome the new ones. We had a very, very good training. I am very happy. We were all fans of him when we were little. From Barthez too and it’s nice to learn from him. It’s hard to reproduce Zidane’s controls (laughs). His first words? It was about putting application on the ground and that’s what we tried to do. We’re not going to get into debates. We just trained, we had fun here. Look at my smile, we had fun.»
