It is not the French striker for whom he had, for once, made the trip to Paris. Present this Monday evening at the Théâtre du Châtelet to celebrate his number 9 Karim Benzema, winner of the 66th Ballon d’Or, Florentino Pérez spoke during an interview for Spanish radio Chain BE the Mbappé file. The soap opera, which closed abruptly for the people of Madrid at the start of the summer with the extension of the Frenchman to PSG, seemed to have reopened just as abruptly when his renewed desires to leave surfaced at the start of last week, at the approach of the Champions League game against Benfica.
“Does the Mbappé affair bother me? It’s not that it bothers me, it’s that I no longer read what is said on this subject, sanctioned the Madrid president. We had a good summer, this is no longer relevant. It doesn’t make any sense anymore. Now players are making dramatic progress in attack. Rodrygo and Vinicius are two cracks. “Never lacking in remarkable sequences, the Spanish press could not help noticing that the Madrid leader and the Frenchman, 6th in the ranking of this edition, did not meet once on Monday.
“If on other occasions, any gesture by one or the other was understood and interpreted as a rapprochement, on this occasion the distance between the two was this time more than noticeable,” even writes Marca, contrasting with the warm reunion between the President of the White House and Zinédine Zidane.
On the other hand, and this is quite normal, he was full of praise for the star of the evening: “Benzema is a mixture of Ronaldo Nazario and Zidane, he does both at the same time. It’s a crack. He advances like Zidane and shoots like Ronaldo. This Monday evening in Paris, he was surrounded by the Brazilian, the two Frenchmen and Luis Figo, four of the Madrilenians to have won the prestigious trophy under his presidency. “It has great sentimental value for me. »
