Everyone was waiting for the big return of for the two Nations League matches this month of November, but to their amazement, when announcing his list of players called up, Didier Deschamps did not name his captain. “I discussed with him and I made this decision for this gathering because I think it’s better that way. (…) Kylian wanted to come. (…) They are not the extra-sporting problems which come into account”declared the coach about his player following a trip to Sweden during the last meeting of the Blues.
An absence coupled with the poor performances of the 25-year-old striker with his new club, Real Madrid, which questions and makes certain journalists think that there would be more than just a bad period. Returning to the subject during L’After Foot this Monday, November 11, Daniel Riolo has a theory regarding the player’s flagging performance. “You have the impression that there, at this moment, apart manage your depressive period and the fact that he’s really not doing well at all, at all…”launches Géraldine Maillet’s companion, before being interrupted by Nicolas Jamain: “Are you talking about depression?”
Daniel Riolo and Gilles Verdez talk about depression
A question to which Daniel Riolo does not hesitate to answer in the affirmative. “I think thathe is in a state which is not far from being a depressive stateYes of course. With the year he spent and his condition, I hope he’s not good, that he’s finished, but there are things which, on the ground, reflect blatant human discomfort“adds the one who was recently.
A theory taken up a few hours earlier by Gilles Verdez in the show Don’t touch my poston C8. Faced with Cyril Hanouna, who wanted to raise the subject, the journalist expressed his concern regarding Kylian Mbappé. “Marca writes that his gesture language says it all, that he is desperate, that he is going through an unprecedented crisis. We don’t know until when Ancelotti will support him. So it’s not going well at all, there is also questions about those around him. He seems like a lost man, perhaps in depression“he explains.
In a very bad situation currently, Kylian Mbappé is therefore suffering from depression according to the two sports journalists. A mental state which affected more than 3 million French people in 2019 according to the information of Public Health France.
