Speaking on Rothen S’Enflamme, ex-French international defender Christophe Dugarry sought to explain why Didier Deschamps must make 24-year-old attacker Kylian Mbappé the new captain of the national team in the coming days, with the role vacated by Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper Hugo Lloris following the announcement of his international retirement 8 weeks ago.
You can’t go against what Mbappé is going to want.
Let’s take the opposite scenario: imagine you don’t give the armband to Mbappé.
I’m sure it won’t be good, that he’ll be upset, affected, that he’ll draw conclusions like “no one believes in me.” Mbappé, he’s a bit of a spoiled child, he’s going to be captain at PSG next year, he has to be at the centre of the project, of the conversation.
Because if it’s not Mbappé it will be Griezmann.
Griezmann, he’s the good friend.
If you don’t give him the armband, it doesn’t matter, there’s no problem.
o I think it would be a mistake to upset Mbappé.
In the dressing room, is he capable of having this role of leader, I cannot express on this issue because I do not know him personally enough.
I think it would be a logical continuation that would do good for Mbappé, our best player.”
An announcement is expected by mid-week next week on who will be leading France going forward, with Mbappé increasingly the heavy favourite – Get French Football News exclusively revealed that the PSG attacker was the favourite to take over the captaincy from Lloris back in February.
The latest France squad currently includes three new faces in the form of Brice Samba (Lens), Khéphren Thuram (OGC Nice) and Wesley Fofana (Chelsea).
