Daniel Riolo launched a vibrant appeal to Kylian Mbappé this Tuesday in the After Foot show on RMC. The journalist asked the Paris Saint-Germain star to come out of silence to resolve the question of his future while his performances have been less brilliant in recent weeks.
Top scorer in Ligue 1 with 16 goals in 15 games, Kylian Mbappé seems a little less active in recent weeks with PSG. A situation that some justify by its turbulent summer and especially by the doubts surrounding its future. Free next June, the Frenchman will be able to sign a pre-contract with the club of his choice from January 1, 2024 but will also be able to prolong the suspense. A vagueness that annoys Daniel Riolo.
“My opinion of the evening is a sort of appeal to Kylian Mbappé. He absolutely must speak, he must come out of this silence,” the member of After Foot launched this Tuesday on RMC .
“Almost a year ago to the day, he played in the World Cup final and he was extraordinary. Of course there was this little circus on the pitch with the President but at that moment, he was probably the sportsman favorite of the French. The whole world saw that it was decided by a penalty otherwise it was probably him who would have been the Ballon d’Or. He was on the roof of the world next to Messi that evening.”
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“He is afraid of being asked questions”
Author of a hat-trick in the final of the 2022 World Cup, Kylian Mbappé came close to a second world title. Behind, the rapid elimination of PSG in the Champions League hurt them. Ditto for his deafening silence during a turbulent summer when the Ile-de-France management punished him after his refusal to extend.
“Since then, in my eyes, it’s been a decline. Not a footballing decline because he continued to score goals but 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”, continued Daniel Riolo about the French striker.
“I think it’s 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 gatherings he didn’t speak so that he is captain and he has skipped press conferences. With PSG he does not speak, with the Blues he has stopped talking. He is afraid of being asked questions. Before, he was a boy who Wasn’t afraid of anything.”
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And Daniel Riolo added on Kylian Mbappé’s communication: “It seems that it is very, very complicated to communicate when you are a football player at this level, and I hope that everyone understands to what extent I am ironic. This is completely beyond me and it’s like certain politicians who are disconnected from reality and who are surrounded not by communicators but by advisors and yet who act stupidly. (…) Kylian Mbappé is surely less surrounded than a politician, and still sometimes I doubt it, but he no longer exists.”
Riolo fears seeing Mbappé get whistled in Paris
Leader of Ligue 1 and already assured of the fall champion title before receiving Metz on the 17th day of the season this Wednesday, PSG will quickly switch to the winter transfer window in January. From the first day of 2024, Kylian Mbappé will be able to sign with the club of his choice if he wishes.
“Soon will probably restart the soap opera in January. Stay or not stay, extend or not… PSG thinks they are going to extend it but he never said he was going to extend so maybe he will stay on his way out,” the journalist further underlined this Tuesday in After Foot. “And why not at Real… But do Real still want him? I’ve already said it, if I’m Real, I don’t see why I would take him knowing my recruitment. (.. .) If I’m Real, I’ll lose my temper in March and I’ll give him two weeks to decide. If I’m PSG, it’s the same thing, they’re not going to drag out this soap opera again. There, like that is going to end, I give Kylian Mbappé a month before getting whistled at the Parc des Princes. Never speaking, never saying anything, cutting himself off from the world. His popularity in France, I never had seeing a player with so much potential and ability be so unloved. I don’t understand but he must have had something to do with it. It’s a bit like he was looking for it.”
And Daniel Riolo concludes on the recent performances of the Frenchman who will celebrate his 25th birthday this Wednesday: “The theory holds that the lack of preparation and everything that happened this summer means that he is not in good shape. in good shape. No problem, but let him come and talk to us. Come and say it! Come and say that you are not in good shape, that you are frustrated at not having your level and that that is why you did the shout last time… Speak Kylian! Because there, frankly, this story is turning into a disaster.”