Mbappé remains a shadow. It hurts me to write it, it breaks my heart into a thousand pieces, but that’s how it is. And I have a bad conscience: Am I not a Real Madrid fan for saying these things? Maybe I should rack my brain looking for a logical explanation for that tiresome wandering of his around the playing fields. He doesn’t play on the left. It’s just that Vinicius doesn’t mess around. He is not physically well. He wants to please so much that he tries to do it all at once. They continue to pressure him from Qatar. Adapting to a team like Real Madrid is not easy. It’s the nose, which is not completely recovered. The Liverpool goalkeeper stops them all. At PSG they played for him. I hear all these excuses and Xavi comes to mind about the grass, the light, the wind, the average air temperature… And we killed him. The former culé coach ended up becoming a meme precisely for trying to find increasingly crazy justifications for his problems. Should I join the languid chorus of voices that, as in Greek tragedies, whisper in the ear of the protagonist? Maybe, but that’s not Real Madrid, at least not the one I learned on the spot when I was a kid. With Kylian there has been special patience and incredible tact. The Bernabéu has not yet gone for the jugular. Throughout the last four months, not a single hint of criticism from his coach or any of his teammates comes to mind. I don’t even want to think what would have happened if the television cameras had caught a conversation between Rudiger and Bellingham giving birth to him. That happened to Vinicius with Benzema and Mendy and the guy said “here I am.” And there he is. And Kylian? Where is Kylian Mbappé? I don’t want to be right. Not anymore. I remember an interview that Joaquín Soler Serrano did with Jorge Luis Borges in which the Argentine writer insisted on the same thing with his usual sweetness, being right is mean. Nor do I want them to sell Mbappé, that would be nonsense. Nor, as Cristóbal Soria said the other day, was I happy that he missed the penalty at Anfield. And I understand that the club is determined to get him back, but not at the expense of the general interest because, as Don Alfredo di Stéfano, who returned Didí to Brazil with a bow, said, no one is as good as all of them together. What I want is for you to answer this question: How long should we play with ten?
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