My friend Enrique Ballester, our Camba in Castellón, always says that one has to go to know his future in -laws carrying velcro shoes. In this way, the first impression that they will take from you is that you don’t even know how to tie your laces … in conditions. That you lack a summer, come on. That you play with ten. So, from that moment, you can only improve. Anything you do and say during dinner and in later encounters will surprise them greatly, because they came from thinking that you were. Do you have a career? Fixed employment? Have you not lost the right to vote yet? Can you sign legal documents without the supervision of another adult? Everything will seem to them a praiseful achievement, a feat, after the beginning with the velcro. In the end, life is only an issue of knowing how to reduce expectations.
Mbappé may, in a great strategy of a preclaim, wanted to do exactly this during all this time. Perhaps he wanted to implement the Velcro tactics with Madrid fans. Everything fits and I am more and more convinced of this theory. He has been a brilliant and Machiavellian tricks from the beginning. That would explain everything. The cunning French front knew that Madrid came from getting a double in Champions and League and that, after many years to play with the illusions of the white fans, the expectations raised with their signing and their performance were high. What can you give to a team that has won everything? In addition, Kaká and Hazard’s ghosts, two fantastic players who were never seeing the Madrid in full conditions, were still very present. The fear of another possible disappointment was latent. There was no margin of error.
Therefore he only had to temporarily pretend that he had forgotten to play football. An amnesia calculated. Endure the chaparrón during the first months, ignoring criticism, until hopes around him were already minimal. Patiently waiting for your moment. Failing badly important, not bargaining or a chair and showing desperate laziness. From there, after playing background, I would only be left out of the cave and play football again as only he knows, surprising colleagues and rivals, winning respect, saying here I am, I never left, I wasn’t Dead, who was in Parranda.
At the José Zorrilla stadium, Mbappé marked a hat-trick. It was his fifth consecutive day watching goal. Ochos goals in five games. And that vertical, light, powerful, dangerous player who makes the world again was again again again again. And he smiled again, exuding confidence, something that seemed to have been forgotten. He has 15 goals in the league. A figure not negligible if the league ends today. But the Mbappé season, that of this Mbappé, that of the authentic mbappé and without velcro boots, just start.
Well played, Kylian. For a moment you fooled us all. Touch.
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