Kylian Mbappé is increasingly discussed. Last season first, it was some PSG supporters who took the striker to task for his controversial departure to Real Madrid. Recently, it was the supporters of the France team who expressed their exasperation with the striker. When announcing his latest list for the Nations League matches, Didier Deschamps announced that he was doing without Kylian Mbappé because he had to treat an injury on the Madrid side. But two days later, the French captain was found a starter in La Liga. To top it off, Kylian Mbappé was seen on a night out in Stockholm, Sweden while his teammates faced Israel.
During an intervention on the Mbappé case in the After Foot on RMC this Sunday, October 13, Daniel Riolo shared his analysis on the trajectory of Kylian Mbappé’s career: “For me, that’s the real topic today: what is the state of one’s true passion? He is a player who has been on the job for seven years, if we estimate that he started at 17 in Monaco. Messi and Ronaldo blinded us and made the history of football with their immense career, their wagons of goals which never stopped and which still do not stop, they are still the leaders, the bosses. But one day, we will perhaps have to understand that these are two exceptions, out of the ordinary. I wonder if he still has this passion, this same flame. And this is the case for many players.“
Daniel Riolo skeptical for the future of Kylian Mbappé
For Daniel Riolo, football could no longer be Kylian Mbappé’s priority: “It’s a completely different life from the football player of ten or twenty years ago. And again for some, they were already in show business, they were already with the stars. Today, yes, the player has two days off, he takes a jet, he leaves. I only talk about it when it has an impact on the ground. In the context of Neymar and Verratti, it was eye-popping, they screwed up everything because of their lives. For Mbappé, it could…“
While Daniel Riolo had already suggested in the past that Kylian Mbappé could have an eventful private life punctuated by repeated nights out, Géraldine Maillot’s companion assures that his comments had consequences: “The first to talk about Mbappé’s private life was me last year after Newcastle (4-1 defeat in the group stage of the Champions League on October 4, 2023, editor’s note), it earned me some worries elsewhere. I said: for two or three months, we have been hearing about things that make me think that he is disturbed, that his life is perhaps changing in terms of priorities.“Thus, Daniel Riolo believes that Kylian Mbappé’s move to Real Madrid, a club renowned for its seriousness, will be like a justice of the peace with regard to the Frenchman’s motivation: “He is at Real, it is up to him to show us now what direction he wants to take in his career. For the moment, we don’t know. It’s been six months since the turn was taken and we don’t really know what it will look like. There he gives the impression of wanting to get back to work with physical preparation. We’ll see, there’s the Clasico soon (October 26).”
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