They took some time to digest and begin their counter-offensive. A few hours after the announcement of Kylian Mbappé’s contract extension, the major Spanish sports media, which had almost all announced the future arrival of Bondy’s crack at Real Madrid, did not fail to scratch the world champion French. The most “famous” of them, Marca, title with a very bitter A: “It takes a lot of class to play in Madrid”, accompanied by a photo of Mbappé with his PSG 2025 jersey on the podium of the Parc des Princes . According to Marca, the French player would have “betrayed” Real Madrid to extend with PSG and would have announced directly by message to Florentino Perez his choice to stay in Paris: “I stay in my club, in my city hoping to continue winning” .
Another Spanish reference daily, AS, for its part, believes that its abortive departure from Real Madrid and “its loss”. “He preferred the money from Qatar and the legend of Real Madrid”, continues the daily on its front page, where he also mentions the funny legal action brought by Javier Tebas, the president of La Liga, against PSG.
On the side of the Catalan dailies, we prefer to laugh about it. Mundo Deportivo thus offers itself a title that will bring back good memories to Parisian supporters: “Se queda” (note: it remains), this phrase used by Pique when he thought that his friend Neymar was not going to leave for PSG.
Finally, the now very famous end-of-day talk show “El Chiringuito” also devoted a special program to Kylian Mbappé’s decision. Its host, Josep Pedrerol, held one of his famous speeches there in the he evokes his “anger”. “Everything has been done, except the signature,” he continues. A little later in the evening, the show found a smile with a photo montage of this same much older Pedrerol. “May 31, 2042, the longest signature in history”.