Julien Laurent

I think it's probably still too soon to really hear.

We need to hear from Xabi himself on his side and what he could say and how far could he go down into the, like, I was not able to implement my ideas or I didn't feel the dressing room was receptive to what I was saying or I had issues with some of the individuals and the egos.

All of that, we don't know yet.

Xabi hasn't spoken.

For the players...

We can be based on what they said on social media, which is not always the truth.

As we know, some of them have to say what they said on social media.

So we probably need a bit more time to find out exactly what kind of relationship there was between Xabi and the dressing room.

If the players were really happy for him to go, if they were not happy.

All of that, we still don't know.

But I don't feel that Kylian felt that Xabi Alonso was probably right for him to be sacked.

I think we said it when we were together the day before, the night of.

And I think it's something, it's not against Xabi Alonso.

It could have been anybody saying, hey, should we do the guard of honour?

Kylian would have said, let's not do that.

Let's just retract a bit and then wait.

We'll still be there on the pitch when they get their medals and their trophy, but let's not do that.

I don't think it was against Xabi.

I think Xabi made...

Kylian the center of this team and made him the leader of this team and I think for that Mbappé would always be grateful to Xabi Alonso I think they had that kind of relationship where they needed each other and they could rely on each other and that was important I think Mbappé like everybody else like he said on that quote we showed he knows too well they're not playing well he knows this is not good enough it's very similar to last season under Carlo Ancelotti already that was not good enough collectively we said it many times and they didn't win anything