But it is true elsewhere. This is the root of the disease that has come to afflict Manchester United, another team acting as the final l...
But it is true elsewhere. This is the root of the disease that has come to afflict Manchester United, another team acting as the final landing point for an idol resistant to the death of light. The priorities of the Glazer family, the owners of the club, are indeed irrelevant to the demands of the fans: performance on the pitch only matters insofar as it affects performance off it. As long as the money keeps rolling, first and fourth in the Premier League look a lot alike.
This is the problem that has beset Barcelona, where successive presidential regimes have focused not on maintaining the philosophy that made the club the defining team of an era, but on exploiting its brand, and the Real Madrid, where the overriding justification for any decision is the perpetuation of Florentino Pérez’s power. It’s the problem that keeps a host of teams happy to survive in the Premier League, greedily consuming the lucrative installments of the division’s TV deals rather than, you know, trying to win something.
That alone would not be enough to convince Mbappé to leave. No matter where he plays, he is likely to spend his career at a club where the interests of owners and fans diverge sharply. This is unfortunately the reality of modern football.
Far more significant, in all likelihood, was the precise content of the ultras complaints. If Mbappé had read the statement released to explain the protests, he would no doubt have agreed with most of it. PSG is a fundamentally unserious sporting project. His team is unbalanced, poorly designed, undisciplined. His season tends to be based on a handful of games, two at least, seven at most, in the Champions League.
And that ultimately leaves him no choice. To flourish, Mbappé must leave. He has already won a World Cup, and a series of French championships. The mass of money available to PSG means that the club will inevitably win the Champions League at some point.
But while he might be able to win all the trophies he desires in Paris, a career spent trying to impose logic on a team that has none of it would leave Mbappé unaware of what he might have been able to do. to be, of what he could have become. in a club with a clear vision, and playing for a coach, as the ultras say, who is the final decision maker.
This is not the only consideration. There is also a more commercial factor. Ligue 1 doesn’t live up to its ‘farmers’ league’ reputation – except in the sense that it’s home to the sport’s most fertile crop of talent – but Mbappé need only look at Messi to prove the effect he has. a on a player. profile.
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