The scene was repeated this weekend. Kylian Mbappé resolved the PSG match in Montpellier with a goal and an assist in five minutes and, when Thomas Tuchel wanted to give him rest, he made the angry bench. Mbappé covered his mouth to say something to his coach and, although Tuchel tried to hug him and pulled him by the hand giving him explanations, the French striker did not even look at him. It is the nth episode in the tense relationship between the PSG star and the German coach. The second in just a few days.

Mbappé had already left a similar scene last Wednesday: he broke the resistance of Nantes with a great heel shot and left with the crooked gesture when Tuchel took him out of the field in the 78th minute. «Kylian never wants to leave. It is normal. He did not want against Nantes and here either. But it was already 90 minutes and his partner also deserved to play. That must be respected. They are my decisions. I was not happy, but it is no big deal, ”Tuchel explained, trying to remove iron at the last disagreement with the striker.

The relationship between Tuchel and Mbappé is not good. Neither the coach knows how to manage the thrust of a player who claims more weight in the club nor has the striker been professional with the latest decisions of the German. He also spent the visit to Bruges in the Champions League, where he was a substitute as a precaution after overcoming a muscle problem. The Frenchman came out in the second half and curdled a superb task: three goals and an assist in 22 minutes. "I wanted to demonstrate how difficult it is to manage without me," he said, assuring that he accepted the decision but pulling to give.

Between physical problems and decisions of his coach, Mbappé has only completed six of the 15 games he has played this season with the PSG . In four he was replaced and in five he left from the bench. The last one, two weeks ago against Lille, just before visiting the Bernabéu in Champions. The numbers, however, prove him right: this course accumulates 12 goals and five assists . In other words, it participates in a PSG goal every 57 minutes it passes on the grass.

The problems come from behind

Mbappé already got angry with the German coach last season for dispensing with him in two Ligue 1 games when he was still playing the Golden Boot with Leo Messi, although what ended up sentencing him in the race was a penalty of three matches in May and not be in charge of throwing penalties, gallons that correspond to Neymar and Cavani in the PSG. He finished with 33 goals, by 36 of the Argentine. The hierarchy does not seem to have changed this year: the only penalty of his team with him on the field was launched by the Uruguayan.

It was a few days later, at the awards gala in which he was chosen as the best player and best young man in Ligue 1, when he released the depth charge that disturbed the PSG. «It is time to have more responsibilities. Maybe in the PSG, maybe somewhere else, ”he said. And it was not a poorly measured step, because that same night he reiterated his message. «For me it was time to say it. I am someone whole, when I say something, I think about it. [...] If it is in the PSG, better. If it is elsewhere, it will be elsewhere for a new challenge, ”he concluded.

And that is where Tuchel is, in the midst of Mbappé's struggle to raise status and the PSG negotiations to renew one of the great sensations of the planet soccer. The French striker ends the contract in 2022 and the talks are lukewarm . As Le Parisien reported a few days ago, the Parisian club offers him a contract of 25 million euros plus bonuses until 2025 - still below Neymar -, while the Frenchman is only willing to extend it one more season and with an exit clause If Real Madrid knocks on your door again with a good proposal.

The white threat is the letter with which Mbappé plays to make strength and rise to Neymar's consideration within the club although, according to the French press, it was himself and Marco Verratti who convinced the Brazilian to stay this summer, and his Society works. This season they coincided for the first time as starters in the visit to Real Madrid in the Champions League, and in three games they already add five goals and two assists.

About to turn 21 and in his career to continue climbing steps on the planet football, the French striker does not willingly accept that his coach wants to dose him. With the negotiations for the renovation still underway, the Mbappé to Tuchel displaces in the last matches have surprised in Paris, where before this type of behavior had been affected in Neymar.

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