This is certainly not the best way to prepare for such an important meeting for Paris Saint-Germain, who will face Juventus Turin tonight in the Champions League, but the capital club is a regular in controversy. As tradition dictates, the day before a European match, the team coach, either Christophe Galtier and a player, who yesterday was the star of the team, Kylian Mbappé, answered questions from journalists. A press conference necessarily awaited for the player who finds himself in spite of himself at the heart of the controversy involving his teammate in the France team, Paul Pogba.
Despite all this expectation around the Pogba affair, it was another question that caused a stir. The journalist from LCI Paul Larrouturou challenged Christophe Galtier on a subject related to club travel and in particular a trip to Nantes by plane while the train trip only takes two hours. “Is this a question you ask yourself and have you spoken to your players about it?”then asked the journalist, before a response full of irony from the coach, who started by laughing with Kylian Mbappé listening to this question: “Excuse me. I suspected that we were going to have this question… To be very honest with you this morning we spoke with the company that organizes our trips. We’re trying to see if we can’t get around in a sand yacht. So”
Politicians and anonymous seize the controversy
Hilarious since the start of the intervention, Kylian Mbappé was then questioned by Paul Larrouturou, who asked him what he thought of all this. “Oh I think nothing!”, he exclaimed. A short sequence that caused a real media outcry and social networks were quick to ignite. Anonymous are not kind to the two men, just like public figures, like Clementine Autain. “The sneers and contempt at our burning planet. This disconnect from emergencies and what we are going through is appalling.”, said the deputy of La France Insoumise. The current Minister of Sports and the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Amelie Oudea-Castera also took the Parisian coach to task. “Mr. Galtier, you have accustomed us to more relevant and more responsible answers – are we talking about it?”she says.