Guest of Canal Football Club, this Sunday on Canal+, Ibrahima Konaté expressed his feelings on the non-selection of Kylian Mbappé for the French team’s matches against Israel and Italy in the Nations League.
His position probably does not give him the opportunity to say exactly what he thinks. But Ibrahima Konaté still agreed to comment on the non-selection of Kylian Mbappé for the French team’s next matches against Israel (this Thursday at the Stade de France) and Italy (next Sunday in Milan). The captain of the Blues, less successful with Real Madrid, was not summoned by Didier Deschamps, who did not really want to justify his choice to the press. Without giving his opinion on this decision by the coach, Ibrahima Konaté still commented on the situation during his visit to the Canal Football Club, this Sunday on Canal +.
“When he is with us, the journalists, everyone is around him. Mbappé today, the place he has in this world, it is exceptional. I often tell him: ‘Your level of football , I want it, but I don’t want your life’ because, frankly, it’s very difficult that his name is everywhere, in the slightest actions, we constantly talk about him. Liverpool defender. “Now, Mbappé, when he is with us, we know the qualities he has. We know what he has brought us. And we must not be ungrateful for what he has been able to bring to this French team . He has done a lot and the whole world is aware of it.”
“Mbappé is always the same”
Despite the impact of Kylian Mbappé among the Blues, the Reds player calls on his teammates to do the job in his absence. “Today, he is not there. It is up to the players who replace him in his position to do the work, to be decisive and to be able to allow us to win matches,” said Konaté. “As a player, it’s the coach who makes his choices. He’s the one who decides whether he wants to call or not. I don’t have a say. The most important thing is to come to the selection, play to our strengths and win matches.”
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During his last appearances for the French team, Kylian Mbappé did not convey the image of a different player in the eyes of Ibrahima Konaté: “He is always the same. Like before, like I knew him. He doesn’t Nothing changes. Still the same joy of life, still this desire in training to score, to dribble, to do what he knows how to do. Afterwards I’m not with him every day. with him only a few days but I don’t see any difference.” Has Real Madrid’s new number 9 still had too much to deal with mentally in recent weeks? “I think it’s possible. But now, if he thinks it deep down, it’s up to him to discuss it with people, to talk about it. But I have no idea. Only he knows what’s deep inside him.”
