The weeks follow one another and do not get better for Kylian Mbappé. This December 18 also marks the first anniversary of the final lost by France to Argentina in the World Cup, despite the PSG striker’s hat-trick. Since then and while he has continued to score without interruption (16 goals in 15 Ligue 1 matches all the same), the player has continued to lose popularity and connection with his club partners. The episode of his non-extension this summer undoubtedly left its mark but there is now a new problem with the appearance of tensions between him and Luis Enrique. All these problems in addition to this symbolic date push Daniel Riolo to ask the 2018 world champion to express himself once and for all, he who is fleeing the various press briefings.
“He had an ordinary second half of the season with PSG. He had a painfully managed summer, even if I always said that the fault was certainly more on the club’s side than his, he was not totally perfect either. I think it was more the club that messed up than him but he never spoke. He hasn’t spoken for a year. Even in the French team, the last rallies he did not speak even though he is captain and he skipped the press conferences. With PSG he doesn’t speak, with the Blues he stopped talking. He is afraid of being asked questions. Before, he was a boy who was afraid of nothingcastigates the editorialist this Tuesday evening on the airwaves of RMC. (…) His popularity in France, I had never seen a player with so much potential and ability be so unloved. I don’t understand but it shouldn’t be for nothing. It’s almost as if he was looking for it. (…) Come and say that you are not in good shape, that you are frustrated not to have your level and that that is why you were angry last time… Speak Kylian! Because there, frankly, this story is turning into a disaster.”
