Seasoned Real Madrid fans have seen all types of players come through this club, but in a high pressured environment where big personalties and driven Type As thrive or flop as they come through the door, a universal truth that the ones not meant for Madrid or excelling at the highest level of a team sport often expose themselves as the mask falls off in adversity.
That moment finally happened for Kylian Mbappe, who already burned bridges in Paris before being shunned to Madrid as a free agent, on a random Thursday night at the end of an already lost season against Real Oviedo.
After Alvaro Arbeloa rightfully started the Frenchman off the bench in his first game back from injury after he pulled up with an aggravtion just days ago right before El Clasico, Mbappe acted as if the manager pulled a grave injustice against him. He brought up Xabi Alonso, bashed Arbeloa's structure, and seemed to invent a quote from the coach out of thin air that he was told he was the fourth choice forward at the club before the game.
Kylian Mbappe had no regard for his team
But what really embittered the Real Madrid faithful was the way Kylian Mbappe, having already made a huge nuisance of himself with his disrespectful comments to his manager out in the open, threw his entire teammates under the bus. After hearing stories of moles and backstabbing behind the scenes through the media all season long, here was the highest paid player at Real Madrid acting as if he is the only player on the team.
He told reporters after the Real Oviedo game, which Real Madrid won by the way, via Madrid Xtra, "People were saying it makes no sense for me to play 90 minutes every game. Then we went to the Copa del Rey, I didn't play, and we got knocked out"
Kylian Mbappe's self centered commentary to the media after the match was truly surreal, but this quote truly took the cake. He was so incensed at being put on the bench that he didn't even bother talking about the win, how well Gonzalo Garcia played, or what needs to be done to improve next season and build off this win. Instead, he decided to bring up old stuff that nobody cares about, a loss in the Copa del Rey of the kind Real Madrid have lost before him (remember Alcoyano?). He didn't bring up the times they lost knockout games with him or the wins Real Madrid had, like against Espanyol and Manchester City in the Champions League, without him. Totally self serving with no regard for anyone but himself. That's atrocious behavior from the captain of the French national team.
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