French coach Thierry Henry has been highly critical of Kylian Mbappe for creating drama at PSG and urging the player to put the team’s needs ahead of his own.
What did Thierry Henry say?
The 1998 World Cup winner called out French striker Kylian Mbappe after the striker expressed his displeasure with his role at Paris Saint-Germain under manager Christophe Galtier and was believed to be looking for new shores ahead of the January transfer window. Thierry hit him hard and shared his own experience at Barcelona, where he was deployed wide in the front three by Frank Rijkaard and then by Guardiola, which was not his natural position.
The French coach stated that no one likes to be exposed to something they are not good at. According to Thierry Henry, he doesn’t like it, that’s all. “But there is something more than all the rest: the club. But did they make him feel like the club is the most important thing? Where did they make him feel more important than the club?” he said.
Thierry spoke about his own story. He didn’t like playing on the side in Barcelona. Henry hated it. But he had to do it for the team. He didn’t hear anyone say, “Oh, what a nice gesture” to play on the left for others who had less international goals than him. Henry says that in the end, there is only one rule: “If the coach asks you to do something, you do it for the good of the team. And the team wins! If the team lost, I would understand the debate.”
A little about the topic
Thierry is not the first to criticize Kylian for his attitude, as Emmanuel Petit also voiced his displeasure to Mbappe and asked the striker to grow up. The French striker faced heat after he uploaded a cryptic story to IG where he used the hashtag “Pivot gang” which was interpreted as a rush at Christophe after he was deployed as a lone striker against Reims. It is believed that the French player was given assurances that he would be played in attack for two with a player in the back rather than the usual Paris Saint-Germain front three. However, the coach tried to win back the situation, calling it “a reaction in the heat of the moment, after a moment of disappointment.”