Last Saturday, Paris Saint-Germain defeated Nantes 3-0 away from home.
The aftermath has been characterized by the fact that the team chose to fly a chartered plane to the match, something that both the players and the club themselves displayed on their social channels.
The controversy then started when Alain Krakovitch, head of the national railway company TGV, tweeted and criticized the choice not to take the train, which would take under two hours between the cities.
Criticized for the joke
At the press conference before tonight's Champions League match against Juventus, coach Christophe Galtier was asked by a journalist why they took the flight.
Then Galtier and Kylian Mbappe started to laugh.
And the coach then had to joke in response to the serious question.
- Sorry...I knew I would get that question.
I have actually spoken to the company that organizes our trips and we are now looking into whether we can travel by land yacht (a form of sailing vehicle),” he says, clapping his hands.
Mbappe was then asked his opinion on the subject, but said he had none.