Kylian Mbappe HINTS at his PSG future 🍿 | ESPN FC

Kylian Mbappe HINTS at his PSG future 🍿 | ESPN FC
On the latest edition of Gab & Juls, Gab Marcotti and Julien Laurens discuss:
0:00 Quick hits
4:00 The Kylian Mbappe latest
10:00 Chelsea to move for PSG’s Hugo Ekitike?
13:00 Girona 4-3 Atletico Madrid reaction
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People have released nominees for their team of the Year G 29,000 professional footballers vote on this and you know what I realize 299,000 professional footballers and they’re like people on the internet they’re like Fanboys on the internet when I look at this list right so first

Of all um this team’s going to be picked by this so according to the rules that they have here look I’m not making fun of f BR I don’t know how you would make better rules you get to pick one keeper three Defenders three midfielders three forwards plus the highest VC among

Outfield players uh should we do this should should we pick I goalkeepers are ctoa erson and Emmy Martinez now given CIS has been injured for six months I’m going to pick Emmy Martinez even though I don’t like de who would you pick yeah yeah go for deu yeah

I don’t like you want to guarantee that they’re goingon to pick ederson or CTO and they won’t pick debu but it’s just players so players no oh yeah players know uh Defenders Ruben Diaz Virgil Van djk ader mil another guy who’s played six month but who cares Antonio ruer Jon

Stones another guy with injury issues and Kyle Walker uh Stones play midfield a lot too by the way but whatever uh who do you pick here so this is for the whole calendar year yeah 2023 calendar year yes this includes the World Cup this is like that no the World Cup

Finished in 2022 so that’s not the World Cup right no it includes the World Cup believe it’s a wacky thing uh I don’t know you got to pick three guys out out of this match you to pick vanon djk uhhuh Ruben Diaz and Kyle Walker yeah I like Kyle Walker

Sure let’s go uh your midfielders are Jude Bellingham Kevin De brri ilai gundan another guy who’s pulling up trees now so three again Luka modri rodri Bernardo Silva and V let’s make it easy we both agree on rodri both agree on Bellingham we need to have number three yeah uhy rubish isn’t

It Silva kundan gundan for last season sure okay yeah bado Silva ber Silva and your forwards are Kareem Benz kareim the dream every day just stop it earling Holland Harry Kane okay mbappe Messi Cristiano and V at least this one’s interesting yeah can we all agree on

Earling Holland and Harry Kane yeah and then K mbappe there’s no way K MPP cannot be in this top three O Okay and then you got one Wild Card highest vote getter who you go for lonel Messi and that’s it what about I’ve done your list

I’m not even a player v no I’ve done your list here you go all right there you go thank you you can thank him you’re welcome all right um I’m not going to lie I’m not going to talk about stuff that I don’t follow anywhere near

As closely but um fif bro also have a women’s they do nominee list yeah I I’m going to go out on a limb and say this is all World Cup based because I genuinely it would be mostly yeah yeah because I I this is something I’ve experienced I don’t know how many even

Professionals over here professional women footballers stay up late to watch the nwsl or vice I no I think they I think they do there pretty good following I know Sophie Lawson does but yeah but I mean I can tell you the goalkeeper will be Mari herbs then the

Three Defenders would be heavily I think Spanish because I could easily see Olga of course and Paredes and then the third one might not be Maria Leon because she was not at the World Cup but you can go for Greenwood or ilad or somebody like that your three midfielders aana of

Course I think kward she’s pretty obvious too and then the third one either you go for Claudia or Rolo elun I’m not so K and then you FR three Jenny would be there of course samur would be there and then the third one whether you samur didn’t have a good

World Cup sorry I’m limiting myself to she got injured injured I know but she still then scored against England she scored she scored a penalty against and she’s done well at Club level so Club level yeah for sure and then I think Paro for not just the World Cup but

Everything and then your wow card could be like Alysia Russo or Alex let’s say Alex Morgan so you can play a stupid 334 for exactly something like that you know okay no but it’s it’s in keeping with these World 11 type teams we mentioned Paris SG we mentioned

Real Madrid you know what’s coming Jules helan mbappe is free to sign as a free agent with any club and he talked about it after the Pary s and I thought of you because I thought well done gab will appreciate the fact that you come out

And you talk about it and he said I haven’t decided yet I don’t know yet what I’m going to do um and then we asked him will it be as late as it was in 2022 when it was end of May he said well it’s because back then I didn’t

Know until May what I was going to do but if I know before if I know earlier why wait there’s no point he also said something really interesting and I think something that gives you a little hint that it is going to go because he said that really his decision was not

Important where we all know that it is because after the agreement that he found with PhD and Nas khi the club is protected and the interest of the club will be preserved in case he leaves as a free agent which means that if he leaves the club won’t be like left-handed in

The sense that they will be no transfer fee but because he’s going to wave off the bonus that the club owes him which is up to 80 million euros it will feel almost like a transfer fee for PhD and I think for him to say that and to to

Almost um I don’t think he’s ever mentioned and we’ve been brief but but we’ve been told but nobody really on record that talked about that point shows that for him to make sure that this is out there this is confirmed they he confirmed it maybe shows that this is

The the idea and the plan so let’s let’s explain this for people who may have no idea what you’re talking about and correct me feel free to jump in and correct me if I’m wrong when he decided to turn his back on um on Real Madrid uh the first time

He signed that two plus one deal yeah right that that plus one involved a bunch of money and loyalty bonuses that pumped up his would have pumped up his compensation enormously effectively he’s saying well look you won’t have to pay these loyalty bonuses the deal I I reached in the

Summer when I said I wasn’t going to Extended another year means that you won’t have to pay the Loyalty bonuses right so at the end of each of those three seasons potential so two plus one there are bonuses that PhD to bump up his salary even more we’re going to pay

Each year um which you give that money back for the two extra years you stayed no so for the second so the first season is already paid obviously right for the second season kilan said to them listen don’t pay me those bonuses if I leave on

A free because he could have taken that money because that is paid at the end of the season yeah and then go on a free to Real Madrid for example and then the third season obviously there won’t be there won’t be a third season so you

Don’t have to pay salary and they don’t have to pay him the bonus but that’s that’s that’s it’s Bazi here I think well to make it seem like oh look p s your M’s protected like yeah no yeah because right now they owe him 80

Million EUR so he he would they chose to give him that salary yeah I would think they would rather he stayed and played than pay him the 80 million euros yeah well no because if he stayed they have to pay the 80 million EUR right but I

Would I would assume that they would prefer that true but he could also take the money and still leave on a free of course so I think in a way you would feel maybe like okay we don’t pay the 80 but he still goes but you know it’s yeah

One of those back to Madrid Gabby as carelot says the club won’t be signing a new Central defender in January despite the season ending for David Alaba and we’re not really sure if a Milito can come back before the end of the season either does this make sense to you no it

Makes zero sense I saw what he why where he came out he said that and he said well because we have them and then we have we have Chi we we have uh so rudar and nacho RAR and nacho and then we have sh man who’s hasn’t played center back

Most of his career but obviously can play there if need be and Dan gvad who also hasn’t played center back most of his career nacho by the way turns 34 or 30 even 35 in March and he was suspended against Maya play the center back I mean

It makes no sense to me I think though this is part of the reason why I got a new deal because if this were 99% of other managers they’d be screaming for the treetop for another Center back because by the way Ruder is the type of guy who gets suspended yeah nacho is

Suspended uh do you really you really you’re really going to tell me you’re going to go and you’re going to play with with with treni and and Carvajal really no yeah I know I I don’t know if he’s doing some Mind Trick and then Florentino says oh look just kidding no

No we just we have an opportunity we’ll bring somebody in this to me seems absolutely crazy and also I’m sure you can bring someone for six month even Rafa Marin you can bring him back from his loan there’s a lot told you Rafa Rafa as well there’s a lot of things you

Could could do one more mbappe question for you because I can’t resist Kristoff dugar who is neither a p sang fan nor Perry born bread I checked he had some pretty mean things to say about mbappe on RMC uh he insists that mbappe is stagnating that he’s lost his way that

He hopes from the bottom of his heart that he leaves which I guess makes sense because he’s not a p s Man Fan no he’s not he’s not I mean du guy is um is his own person very much so he’s got really strong opinion on the radio uh with me a

Lot and and yeah this is what he said he’s been saying this for a long time and I don’t think he wishes badly on on mbappe or Lian overall uh I think he knows that it would be better for Lian to keep mbappe in there but I think he

Thinks more for the national team as well for his best friends in zidan who at some point going to take over that maybe K will become better is he right yeah yeah probably after the Euros I would think no no is he correct that it

Would be good for mbappe to to move on for for mbappe personally and his development and for the French yeah I think as much as I would love him to to stay I would tend to agree I think he’s always better especially if you go to Real Madrid or to Liverpool how about

Another guy who was much hyped as a kid and then ran into issues Ugo iki not Paris born and bred uh maybe this is the problem maybe he cost Paris SG man 35 million is a lot of money yeah and yet has managed just nine minutes this

Season for Luis Enrique left out of the Champions League Squad could he be rocking up at vol soon it looks the most likely right now gab they are in discussion The two clubs he he obviously was dropped because he refused to go to Frankfurt at the end of last summer when

Colani made the way his well from Frankfurt to Paris didn’t want to go to Germany he want he wanted to go to England to West Ham or Crystal Palace or one of those why vur why you determin to punish him by sending the guy guy does

Not want to go to Germany deal with it right now it’s only volberg and right now he can’t choose nobody else in the world who wants right now right now no and vburg at 10th I think in uh the Bundesliga so they’re not too bador they’re not great idea okay all to

Relaunch to relaunch his career six Monon loan with an option to buy they pay his wages he’s 21 years old yeah he played a lot for Paris sgain lesy I know it’s because there was no colani no Gonzalo but he played like 30 odd games including the ones off the bench not

Many starts though yeah not many not many starts they they had I mean sorry reminder their Strikers last season were Messi Neymar and mbappe so I don’t expect him to have many right he’s still very very young are you telling me that of all the clubs in the

World wburg is the only place that’s interested it’s the only place that genius Luis Campos with all his contacts right now I’m telling you that right now the only you think you don’t think since since he’s got he’s got his buddies at sgo you don’t think they would take him

On loan for six months I’m just saying to you I don’t know who would want to take him I’m just saying to you right now the only Club who have contacted PhD and open negotiations are vurg I’m not saying that nobody else want no other club in the world right now it’s only

Vburg but maybe the others are going to come out I’m I don’t know but I’m just telling you I’m hoping that other clubs will list maybe I’m I I’m I’m going to be straight up about this right there’s a club down the street here you might have heard of them

They’re called Chelsea they’re founded in 1905 their Center forwards are Armando brya who’s got massive issues and I kept saying oh it’s because he’s coming off his injury now I’m starting to think maybe it’s just him and the other guys Nico Jackson yeah you don’t think this is the profile that might fit

Them try before you buy or whatever yeah maybe I’m not sure the answer to Chelsea but yeah maybe whatever I’m with you I’m just saying to you only volberg right now are talking to PSG if you were Eric ten hog who would you rather have as your

Alternative to Rasmus hland I know I always talked about a veteran Striker Anthony martial on the martial plan B bra all the time what martial Paris Bor and bra will always be my favorite Jes I want to get into this uh as I said a little bit more um people I always

Find it weird when people like describe how teams play right because they say oh they always play the same way and they always have energy and they’re always forward looking yeah when teams win they always look that way regardless of how you play what seems pretty obvious here

Though is you have a team that tries to build from the back all the time and as a result sometimes Expos itself they mean they leak a tonic right 26 I think in 19 or 28 in 19 something like that you don’t normally win the league in those situations but if you outscore

Them you know it doesn’t matter people have said oh it’s a it’s a c thing there’s a c Legacy there who knows right it’s not like C become like a by word for any kind of attacking football yeah but they do a lot of pressing um and and

Counter pressing and in some ways it’s not dissimilar to aversion of what we’ve seen pep do and obviously he’s evolved over the years it’s a version of what klopp does not so much in the buildup but certainly in the in the counter press right um I’d argue it’s not something we’ve

Seen very much in Spain from the top teams in the sense that the old Barcelona of um of Guardiola the the first trouble winning one they did that a little bit but then they also had Messi they could also slow the games or crawl when they wanted to they control

They when they recovered they didn’t instantly try to attack and score the way um the way this team does so I would argue that’s a little bit different it’s not something we’ve seen for Real Madrid it’s always been intermittent with Real Madrid certainly not atleti over the

Years maybe thead is are the one team that that have done that I me among the among the top teams right yeah yeah yeah yeah um and it Asad maybe also because of what you said it’s it’s very taxing physically to do that it Asad don’t have the biggest Squad obviously they’re

They’re involved in Europe um why is it do you think that this kind of trend or this approach which has been frankly common place in Germany and and in the Premier League um with with certain teams certainly why we haven’t seen so much of that at the top end in Spain I

Think it’s it’s a maybe a cultural reason in the sense that this is not really the the the style is more the technical style and the tempo is maybe a little bit slower even when you’ve got input from different managers who might have different ideas I think you always

Go back to maybe the way they play the kind of players that they form in academies who are usually not the most physical and and um and that can run and run and run forever but instead are just more the more Technical and play the

Game that way maybe it’s that I just I just love the fact that some are trying to do it some like La a bit of a mix of everything thing so you’ve got that technical ability from the Spanish culture but also the high intensity that you can Implement to some players

There’s no reason why Spanish players can’t run and run and run and run it’s just not this is not rod runs and runs and runs yeah for example you’re right um so so yeah I just love and but I think the fact that Mitchell you know well last season

Especially in the first half of the Season where they had a decent season we said it the other day they finished 10th they had 49 points so just one point more than what they already have now uh but we’re maybe more defensive uh and Chang evolved in the second half of last

Season and then suddenly with a new signing in the summer who have made a big impact really we can talk about his substitutions because I think his coaching is really really good and we saw against tuani and Porto having a really good impact on that game against

Against Atletico Madrid sry late in the game but the starters I mean Savino OV do Vick all of that is it’s really really good addition to a squad that was already a decent Squad not a title winning potential Squad but he was still a decent squad for La Liga yeah I I

Think the reason we haven’t seen it in Spain tactically it was a typical thing where you know I asked your question because then I wanted to give my it’s co when you play that way and you screw up right so when you press and the other

Team plays through you and you can see the goal you look really really stupid and I think especially for for the top teams and think specifically of Barcelona and Real Madrid there’s not that much of a tolerance for that when you’re the manager um and there’s not necessarily

An imperative to do it because you generally have far better players than almost anybody You’ll Play yeah and so if you and I’m not saying these are defensive mind I mean Barcelona hasn’t this necessarily a defensive minded team I’m talking historically of the last 10 years right or or even Real Madrid U

Maybe bit more so under under enel but but it’s more the fact that if you just once you have the ball you want to keep the ball because you’ve want more skillful players so you’re not going to go vertical except maybe when you recover deep and then you want to counter you

Want to release vich or or whatever um that’s what I find so interesting about Pat and his Evolution at City it maybe the more vertical side started at Bayern they could keep the ball and have 80% possession because they have better players than almost anybody they face

Right um but you choose to mix this in and so sometimes you give up stupid goals but that’s okay um I do think and I think it’s more of an issue in Spain because like you said like this is they probably produce more technically gifted players than than anybody I’m speaking

Broad very very broad generalizations right yeah but the emphasis is on technique if you’re technically gifted you can play through the Press there’s no press That’s So effective right whereas here in England in the Premier League even though obviously the technical quality is very high and we

Can debate maybe it’s higher than in Spain there’s more of that mindset that you know you can attack that Center back and force him into a mistake yeah yeah yeah for sure and there’s more of a tolerance I think from the fans that they actually want to see that and in

Germany certainly yeah and in Germany we’ve seen that for for a long time um do you think they can get over this leaking goals no because I think this is the way play so I think they’re very you see the three goals they concede they three goals really that I know it’s

Atletico Madrid and Morata is in form of his life uh but if you look at it the Fleck from Griezmann for the first goal one Griezmann should never win the header and two the line is so the defensive line from Jona is so all over

The place the Morata is just on side the the ball from the pole on the third goal it’s just again you can’t you can’t be caught gar the second goal and I mean this is even worse you know how much I rate Eric Garcia so so yeah I think so I

Think but I think they’re fine with it because they will always create and they ride their leg a little bit as we saw against Barcelona too when Barca had a lot of chances in that second half could not really score and then got done late

In the game on on on transition so I I just I just love that team I love watch them because they are so good to watch so entertaining