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While he had already clashed with Kylian Mbappé in the France team during the September rally, Mike Maignan seems to have sent a little dig at the Real Madrid striker on Sunday evening live on TF1. And even if Didier Deschamps tried to defuse the controversy, the unease seems confirmed between the two men.
It's no longer really a secret: relations are not really good between Mike Maignan et Kylian Mbappé in French team. In September, the date of the last rally in which the former striker of the PSGthe guardian of Blues had also directly targeted Mbappé in his internal criticism, believing that he was too individualistic. A malaise which was quickly revealed in the press, and Maignan clearly not finished with Mbappé.
“When we make the effort…”
Sunday evening, while theFrench team went to win in Italy (3-1) with a very convincing performance in the Nations League, the goalkeeper Blues a you Milan AC dropped a sentence live at the microphone of TF1 which seemed directly intended to Kylian Mbappéabsent from the gathering: “ When we play as a team, when we work for each other, we can do great things. », explained Maignan.
Deschamps calms things down
Asked at a post-match press conference, Didier Deschamps bounced back on these declarations of Mike Maignan and refuses to see it as a tackle intended to Mbappé : « That's your interpretation. I know that in life there can be negative people, twisted people. Stop! Mike speaks from his heart, don't go interpreting things. He talks about the players who were there. You are already starting on things… It will be taken up, you will have debates, whatever you want, go for it! He talks about the players who were there, I told you. If you want to talk about Kylian again, it's complicated for him, leave him alone and I'm convinced that he will regain full possession of his means “. The message got through.
