Kylian Mbappé warming up before Lyon-PSG. Frederic Chambert / PANORAMIC
Jean-Michel Larqué was present Tuesday on RMC, and explained why, according to him, Mbappé skipped a few stages in his career.
Former midfielder for AS Saint-Étienne and the France team, Jean-Michel Larqué still keeps a keen eye on French football. Present Tuesday evening on RMC in the program “Rothen ignites”, Larqué did not fail to compare the career development of Kylian Mbappé, even comparing his choice of clubs with those of the other phenomenon of the planet. football, the Norwegian from Manchester City, Erling Haaland: “I looked at what Haaland has done since his time at Molde, he was in Salzburg, then he took a step in Dortmund. This team has a game identity that is real. Then he took a final step by going to City where he exploded. Mbappé’s individual performances are indisputable on the statistics, but his sporting choice to go directly from Monaco where he had half a season before going to PSG, he skipped the steps a little bit. Collectively, he fell behind Haaland who arrived step by step, in well-identified clubs in terms of football, whether Dortmund or Manchester City, underlines Larqué. This is what is missing for the moment in Mbappé’s career, apart from his qualities as a footballer, what has put him behind Haaland is the choice of the club to progress».
Jean-Michel Larqué specifies that his analysis is not valid for the intrinsic qualities of the player but of course the collective aspect: “We are not judging the quality of the footballer, Kylian Mbappé is superior to Erling Haaland and we are not going to talk about the prize list in the national team either, since Haaland will never be world champion with his country while Mbappé was winner and runner-up, specifies the former PSG player. We only base ourselves on the sporting choices and the progress in the clubs».
