If his understanding with Kylian Mbappé did not exude mad love, Antoine Griezmann accelerated his international retirement due to a cash speech from Mike Maignan that he took for himself.
Christmas will soon arrive but don't count on Antoine Griezmann to return to the France team! One morning in September, the former leader of the Blues closed the biggest chapter of his life – with 137 matches, a World Cup, 44 goals – and the person concerned does not intend to change his decision. To those who have questioned him privately in recent weeks, the 33-year-old has offered no trace of regret. And no desire to return. To those, in the France group or elsewhere, who tried to make him verbalize his sudden decision, Griezmann did not deviate from his line. Between weariness, isolation and this desire to “no longer pretend”.
Maignan shot Griezmann
The September gathering will undoubtedly have played a role in his final choice. Never before had the Madrilenian, in the group, appeared so isolated. According to L'Équipe, he also took for himself Mike Maignan's speech after the defeat against Italy (1-3), where the Milanese goalkeeper greatly regretted, in essence, the behavior of starlets, which invited him to think that the time for departure had really come. “You put a bullet in his head,” an influential member of the Blues staff even whispered in Maignan in October about this dry speech. From now on, Griezmann continues to nurture his American project for next summer. Clairefontaine and the Blues will then be far away.
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