On May 30, Antoine Griezmann announced in a press conference on the French team’s play:  » It’s annoying to watch, but it’s a win-win. « The answer is available to the listener composed of journalists, it had not at all passed to Didier Deschamps, according to the information gathered by the press in the following days and weeks. This match, Kylian Mbappé was in turn behind the microphone, on the eve of the Nations League match between France and Italy (8:45 p.m.). And like his vice-captain a few months ago, the captain of the Blues spoke of this famous tricolor style of play. The proposition that could irritate Didier Deschamps.

While answering a question about Italy’s level of play during Euro 2024, Kylian Mbappé stepped into the breach to talk about France’s.
Italy didn’t play well? I think we didn’t play well either. » The proposal is perhaps more in line with the terrible lack of efficiency of a French team that saw its players score only two small goals by themselves despite a run that took them to the final of the competition. Relaunched on the subject when an interlocutor asked him if the Blues should try to re-enchant their public through beautiful play, the Real Madrid attack kicked into touch with a small smile and a long hesitation, concluding with a  »
Maybe » repeated several times.

Mbappé reprimanded?

So many answers that have led some analysts to say that Didier Deschamps might not like his captain’s words very much. Journalist from the channel The TeamGiovanni Castaldi and his impression of relaunching the scene on May 30: “
For me, there is one of those communication errors when he answers the question of our Italian consumer and he says: ‘We also did not play well‘. It’s the impression of Antoine Griezmann’s return to the scene, who is impatiently waiting for (the Euro) the French team, which has a team that takes care of him. And in my opinion, this little phrase from Kylian Mbappé won’t please the staff and management of the French team. »

For the observer, it is not to be excluded that a small reframing takes place. It’s true that it may seem surprising to say that Kylian Mbappé is going to be put back in his place, but we can clearly sense that in the penultimate answer he gave, when asked if there was a need to reconnect with the public through beautiful play, he said: ‘I don’t know, maybe, maybe‘. We can clearly feel that he does not want to commit any alteration, because he knows that the slightest mistake, already when it is a player from the French team who pronounces it on the game, it causes scandal, it causes debate, for example, the author of the French team, according to Didier Deschamps, knew how to debate. And there, he knows very well, expert in communication as he is, that this little sentence will be interpreted, overinterpreted, and that it can potentially clutter the gathering a little. »