By preparing his little bundle towards Clairefontaine, after the defeat conceded Sunday with Paris on the lawn of Rennes, Kylian Mbappé was perfectly aware of the explosion he was about to cause to PSG. By organizing a communication operation better tied up than grandma’s Sunday leg, with two river interviews granted to The team and to RMC and published in the midst of an international truce, the player has shown his leaders that he is both the master of time and his destiny.
Silent as a carp all summer, at a time when the supporters would have killed father and mother to know his official position, this one, who we can guess very annoyed by the media rantings of Nasser Al-Khelaïfi and Leonardo at the end of August, has finally decided to empty his bag and deliver his truth about his aborted transfer to Real when it was least expected, two months after the start of the new season.
For Luis Fernandez, this exit “has the merit of clarifying the situation, even if we have known for a long time that he wanted to leave since he did not want to extend his contract”. “Personally, I would have liked him to speak earlier, I still find the timing very late,” ticks Mickaël Madar. If the former Parisian coach refuses to judge the com ‘of the world champion, he still sees the positive:
“It’s good that the fans finally know his point of view. Afterwards, they will appreciate, they will not appreciate, that, we will see. Now it’s up to him to be the best and most efficient possible when he comes back from selection. We know very well how it works: if things go wrong on the pitch, he knows what to expect, he knows that there will be negative feedback from the Park. They won’t miss it. It can backfire on him, that’s clear. “
What reception at the Park against Angers on the takeover?
Not sure that the public at the Porte d’Auteuil waits to see his performance on the ground to tell him his four truths. We remember the heavy whistles that accompanied his first at the Park this season against Strasbourg. If he explained to The team that he understood these boos and that he preferred to see them as “a mark of affection”, he will probably have to show an otherwise more twisted mental gymnastics if history repeats itself on his return from the France team.
On the player side in any case, this media release is timely. “I had to explain myself. I had to end this silence and I said I would. I owed that to the supporters, the football fans and the people who read me. I could not speak during the summer, it was not possible. Now the summer is over, I have to make a point, I think it’s the right time ”.
This point, let’s get to it. What does Parisian number 7 tell us? There again it is a question of timing: “Before the Euro, I told the club that I did not want to extend, and after the Euro, I said that I wanted to leave. My ambition was really that we all walk hand in hand, the seller club, the buyer club and me. Make the best deal possible to all get out the front door. I also wanted to give my club time to find a replacement. That everyone is happy and that I, I continue my little man on the road. “
A settling of scores with Leonardo?
Not being in the secret of the gods, Mickaël Madar opts to bottle Paris: “If what he says is true, if the leaders were informed in mid-July of his choice to join Real, I think that gave them time to prepare for his succession. Especially since he kept saying that he did not want to extend. They did Messi in a very short time, so I think it was quite doable ”.
What is certain is that by saying this, the former Monegasque completely clears himself of the wrongs with which the Parisian supporters overwhelm him, even if it means blaming PSG, who preferred to believe that an extension was still possible and took the risk of refusing Real Madrid’s offers. Problem, the timing (always him) does not really match what the player is saying. Indeed, the first official offer of Real arrives on the office of Nasser Al-Khelaïfi on August 25, that is to say a week before the end of the transfer window …
However, for Luis Fernandez, “Mbappé and Real have necessarily agreed together when the first offer was going to fall”, which would then ruin the theory according to which the French striker did not want to be “ungrateful” with the club which [l’a] welcomed at 18 and who [lui] gave a lot for four years ”.
“We don’t know what can happen”
At the club, no one has yet spoken to react to the player’s comments. The time of digestion, shall we say. But it’s a safe bet that the pill will have a hard time passing. Especially since this speech did not fall on deaf ears. Indeed, as soon as Mbappé’s first words were published on the RMC site, Florentino Perez came out of his burrow to save the Bondynois prisoner. “In January we will have news from Mbappé,” he told El Debate before going further. We hope that on January 1, everything can be settled ”.
Immediately nuanced output from RMC, to the well-known tune of “my words have been distorted”: “What I said is that we have to wait until next year to have news and this, always in respect of the PSG with which we are talking good relations ”.
🐢🤐 “Mbappé tiene que estar calladito y firmar por el Real Madrid en enero”.
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Again, it will all depend on what the player wants. However, he seems to take pleasure in playing with the nerves of his courtiers. Tuesday in The team, he even said everything and its opposite without ever shaking his calves. On the one hand, about his desire to leave at the end of the season: “I’ve been in football long enough now to know that the truth of yesterday is not that of today. , nor that of tomorrow. So, we don’t know what can happen. “
On the other, about a possible extension: “We are far from it, since I wanted to leave this summer. I’m not going to be the hypocrite and come and throw a bottle in the sea, like, “Oh, I don’t know.” “Understand who can. We, personally, we gave up the idea, and our friend Josep “tic tac” Pedrerol du Chiringuito Also, almost more worried than Nasser after this double interview with drawers. Can’t wait for the end of the circus, anyway.