Paris Saint-Germain is about to face the Riyadh All-Star at 1 a.m. Beijing time on January 20. This seething game, which has been hyped by the outside world, is about to begin. Most eyes are on Messi's last clash with Cristiano Ronaldo.
The last Mero showdown
But with the recent overwhelming criticism of Messi in the French media (see the author's previous article about Paris for details), as the club where the player plays, Paris Saint-Germain did not make a protective move at the first time, but allowed things to ferment. Mbappe, who also performed mediocrely, seemed to be a bystander in this turmoil, as if this was the result he wanted to see.
Mr. Mu and his little wife
Back to this very commercial game. In the previous week's promotion, Paris officially released Messi and Mbappe standing in parallel, and the two shared the poster C position. And Messi even showed the word GOAT (meaning best in history) on the cuff. It shows the same respect for the two kings of Messi and Mbappe.
Poster from a week ago
At the end of the team's latest official video, the situation has changed 180°, the poster layout has not changed roughly, but the slight change between Mbappe and Messi makes people feel incomprehensible: the original parallel placeholder has become Mbappe's exclusive C position, and it is worth mentioning that Messi's "GOAT" is blocked, which is obviously deliberate!
Latest poster
If it is the C position from the beginning, fans and players will not think too much, and everyone in the world knows that Mbappe is the French supernova that Grand Paris has been praising all the time. Sky-high contract, great rights, Mbappe can have everything he has at the club! But this kind of inconsistent, backtracking behavior. It really made the fans angry. It also makes people feel the strong political atmosphere of Paris Saint-Germain Club!
Middle Eastern fanbase in Paris
Now the image of Grand Paris to the world is: we know in our hearts that Messi is the best in history, and we recognize Messi's excellent performance in the World Cup. But because there is Mbappe in the team, we need to consider the mood of our teammates to see the poster, not to mention the French media reports cannot be ignored. So secretly modified the poster, did not even dare to send it out alone, and secretly sandwiched it at the end of the video to satisfy the noble superiority of the French!
Even if he gets in the way, Messi is still the most popular
Messi certainly doesn't care about all this, his greatness won't lose his luster because of a cowardly nation, he only sees football. I don't have the energy to participate in the so-called palace fighting drama of Grand Paris! And who is paying attention to all this? We don't know.
Although Messi is not good at words, his heart is very strong, he did not deny himself because of the boos at the Parc des Princes, but used his performance to tell those proud French fans what is the king of football! At the beginning of his joining, Messi said that he was here to help the team, but Paris Saint-Germain's series of operations outside of football really made Athletics itself lose its fun!
The boos that Messi once experienced
I never thought of Paris as a big team, and now I'm even more convinced of that. Their focus is not on football at all, but on some minutiae, which makes me wonder if I am watching "Idol Trainee", for fear that the next second Mbappe will make a grand debut with flowers. Mu always eats cakes, Mene carries the pot, such things are not uncommon. I like Messi, I can't bear to waste his time in a team like this!
Messi and Neymar
Grand Paris continues to make such small moves, in exchange for only the contempt of the fans and a further decline in attractiveness. Or that sentence: respect is earned by yourself, not forcefully stuffed into someone!
Mr. Luo didn't know it, and was wearing an armband excitedly