A realization is beginning to sink in for Real Madrid fans that in 2024, PSG manager Luis Enrique was right about his club not being able to win with Kylian Mbappe. And when Mbappe first joined Real for free in summer 2024 after years of pursuit and Enrique said his team would be better off without the Frenchman, the Madridistas guffawed and wrote the commentar off as sour grapes.
Now, nearly two years later, how right Enrique looks. Real Madrid have cycled through coaches, lost trophies, lost games they should have won, and ruined a winning formula in the 2023/24 season that led them to the Champions League with Rodrygo Goes, Jude Bellingham, and Vinicius Junior as its fluid attacking pillars. Young talents have been discarded, star midfielders have warped their playing styles to accommodate, him, and all the while PSG won the Champions League with the same fluid attack and team based formula.
Kylian Mbappe needs to follow his own advice
Yet the wild thing is that Mbappe, just like he admits how his lack of work on the defensive end kills his teammates, admits that teamwork is the most important thing. He delivered this quote prior to the game against Bayern Munich in the Champions League that may very well decide a trophyless season for Los Merengues, via the Madrid Zone, "My game evolved? Without a doubt. When I started, I mainly thought about expressing myself, about making a difference. Over time, you understand that football isn't just what you do with the ball. It's also everything that surrounds it: the teamwork, consistency, responsibilities. Nowadays, talent isn't enough. What makes the difference is consistency."
Excuse me, but what a load of crock. There is not a single soul in France or Spain who can look another person dead in the eye and say that they think Mbappe's game has evolved. It has devolved. Gone is the young, sprightly, and explosive talent who worked for the team, knew his limitations, and played within a system. Kylian Mbappe has become an entitled superstar who thinks he is the system and plays like a man who only wants his team to win if he can be the hero of the narrative.
Mbappe says that consistency and teamwork matter the most. Those are the two precise things Real Madrid fans have yet to see from him at the Santiago Bernabue. There are goals, there is individual brilliance, but it is at the expense of everyone else. Real Madrid were winning without him in the XI, and now they are losing with him back, the same formula against Manchester City replaced by one in which a forward never defends and is never there for the goal or the outlet when his team needs it. Mbappe sounds like the most enlightened man at the press conference, yet the actions speak volumes, leaving Madrid fans perplexed and a bit disgusted.
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