Mbappe Must Clear Crossroads

World Cup 2018 sensation faces career obstacles for club and country

- Neil Humphreys

The confused folks at Paris Saint-Germain are remaking a Disney classic that no one wants to see. The Lad and the Tramp.

Oh, and there’s also a goat, because every Disney yarn needs a goat.

It’s the unromantic tale about a dazzling prodigy and an established superstar bickering over the arrival of the greatest footballer of all time.

Basically, Kylian Mbappe called Neymar a tramp. The wunderkind expressed his frustration at the Brazilian’s apparent inability to pass in their side’s recent 2-0 win over Montpellier.

On Tuesday, Mbappe came clean. He did call Neymar a clochard (tramp), brushing off the incident as a heat of the moment gesture, but one couldn’t help but wonder how it’d come to this.

Mbappe looks lost.

The boy that battered Argentina in the 2018 World Cup almost seems like a trick of the mind. But it really did happen. Mbappe announced his arrival with breathtaking authority that rivalled Pele back in 1958.

The French teenager was an extraordinary mix of speed and steel, like the shape-shifting T-1000. The enfant terrible just kept on coming.