The in fighting and backstabbing at Real Madrid has reached an all time low this season, and for the Madridistas who view Kylian Mbappe as the common denominator after the same issues cropped up time and time again at PSG, Thursday night's win over Real Oviedo only reenforced their belief that Mbappe is a problem in the locker room.
Because instead of talking about the win, including Gonzalo Garcia's Man of the Match performance in the starting lineup, all anyone could talk about was Mbappe and all the wild things he said in the press conference after the game.
We have seen rumors of discontent and bad body language, but this was the first time we actually saw one of the stars of Real Madrid openly throw a manager or another player under the bus - and Mbappe did this multiple times in his rants instead of praising his teammates or the team after the win.
Kylian Mbappe has turned on Alvaro Arbeloa
Mbappe saved his most scathing words for Alvaro Arbeloa, who benched him against Oviedo and only played him in the second half, given Mbappe had just told the team shortly before the previous game against Barcelona that he suffered an injury.
The Frenchman invoked previous manager Xabi Alonso to basically insult Arbeloa and say that the team has gotten worse and has no tactics now compared to before. He said, via the Madrid Zone, “We started the season well. Then we lost everything in the 2nd half of the season. It hurts a lot, I feel like we had a playing style, a structure, and we lost all of it.”
Even though Xabi Alonso is a stronger manager tactically than Alvaro Arbeloa, it's not like Real Madrid were actually starting the season all that well under the former Madrid midfielder's rule. And the notion that Vinicius Junior and the others got him fired simply isn't true, with most reporters around Madrid stating that Florentino Perez and the front office didn't think he was doing a good enough job and were always leery about his ideas and style actually fitting Madrid at this stage of his career.
A lot of what was assumed about how the players felt about Alonso was mostly conjecture. But Kylian Mbappe making the comments he did to the press about Arbeloa after the game and throwing him under the bus was not conjecture; it is reality and public evidence. Mbappe does not care about Real Madrid. He cares about himself, first and foremost, just as he did for PSG, and only the people who have fallen for his cult of personality fail to see this. The minute he feels slighted, he will turn against someone and burn the earth. Arbeloa dared to leave him on the bench, and now he must incur Mbappe's wrath.
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