At the end of last August, Kylian Mbappé became the owner of Caen, from the French second division. At 25 years old, he can boast of being the youngest owner of a football club. However, things are not happening as he expected, since the team is not going through its best moment and its fans are already beginning to complain about a delicate situation, questioning some of its decisions.
The French striker acquired SM (Stade Malherbe) Caen through Interconnected Ventures, the company he owns. He did so by purchasing 80% of the club’s shares for 15 million euros, while the remaining 20% still corresponds to Pierre-Antoine Capton, the last owner of the French team.
SM Caen is a modest team from France. It has only played in the first division on 10 occasions, with fourth place being its best historical classification, in 1991-1992, while in the second it has participated on 20 occasions. Their greatest milestone was in the 2004-2005 campaign, in which they finished runners-up in the French League Cup, losing in the final against Strasbourg.
Mbappé’s connection with this humble club comes from a young age, when the French star came to wear the shirt of the Norman club (he also did so with Real Madrid), although he finally ended up opting for AS Monaco, the club in which he made his debut. professional manner.
However, Mbappé’s first steps as owner are not going as expected. Caen is second to last in the second division, in relegation positions (with 15 points in 17 games), when it was expected to be positioned in the upper middle zone of the table. One of the first objectives of the white ‘9’ is to be able to promote the French club in the short term and this season it does not look like that is going to happen.
His first major reinforcement for Caen was that of Yann M’vila, who revealed in a recent interview that it was Mbappé who convinced him to join the Norman club. “I received a call from Mbappé, in the company of his mother. Kylian knows me very well, I also know him very well. And his mother will know me more in the future. He told me about the project, what he expected of me. Up to date The next time I saw his mother and we reached an agreement,” he revealed.
The fans are impatient
In the last league match against Clermont, in which the club suffered a new defeat, Caen fans showed their dissatisfaction with the club’s current situation, even showing a banner that read “Mbappé, Caen “It’s not your toy!”
The fans also did not like the dismissal this week of Nicolas Seube, an institution at the club for his successful time as a player in Normandy. In his position, Mbappé placed Bruno Baltazar, a person with no experience in French football and questioned for his previous jobs.
“Before trying to make an impact on the international scene, we must respect local figures,” was another of the messages displayed by Caen fans on the occasion of the dismissal of Nicolas Seube.
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