In an interview-river granted to the Parisian, Kylian Mbappé confides in his return to the Blues and his relationship with Didier Deschamps.
His latest selection for the French team dates back six months. After a difficult end of 2024, marked by the media episode of Stockholm and his absences on the ground alongside the Blues, sometimes for injuries, but sometimes by simple choice of coach Didier Deschamps, Kylian Mbappé will finally find the French team this week. The opportunity for the player to grant a long interview to the Parisian.
And the least we can say is that the native of Bondy does not hide his enthusiasm at the idea of finding his teammates. “It always causes the same feeling of pride as to represent the blue jersey,” said Kylian Mbappéfor whom it is always “a pleasure” to find the French team. “Everyone knows what the blue jersey represents for me. I am happy to come back, I always have the same energy and the same desire to make the French team triumph.”
Asked about the criticisms he has suffered in recent months, the captain of the Blues is sweeping away: “There are difficult times for any player, times when you have to know how to do your back and work. This is what happened to me. I was able to go up the slope […]. Now, you have to continue because going up the slope, it’s easy, but staying up, it’s the hardest. “And Kylian Mbappé ensures:” My only concern today with the French team is to be world champion, the rest is only literature. “
“I arrive, as if I had never left”
Asked in the tone of humor by daily life on the possible kiss that he intends to do to Didier Deschamps for his return, Kylian Mbappé did not lack laughing. Replied that it is not the local practice, he however spoke more seriously his relationship with the coach of the Blues: “It will be a hug, as always. I have never cut contact with the coach, my relationship with him has not changed. […] It will be very natural. I arrive, as if I had never left. “
The number 10 of the French team particularly insisted on the absence of “rupture”. “If there was a breakup, I would never have answered his calls. Everyone knows me. If there is a break with someone, I do not maintain contact, I do not know how to pretend,” he argued, pointing that it is not “two, three disagreements, which are not serious at all” who will put their relationship “in the trash”.
Kylian Mbappé did not however specify what disagreements it was exactly, contenting ourselves with elude: “In any job, we have disagreements with colleagues, that does not mean that we do not like them or that we do not respect them.” As for rumors on Zinedine Zidane who could take over from Didier Deschamps, Kylian Mbappé refused to comment, even confident to try “not to cross” Zinedine Zidar in Madrid to avoid feeding speculation even more.