Philippe Auclair

The people who have signed are not verified.

The whole operation probably just cost a few hundred euros just to set up everything.

Because believe me, no petition has ever required, for anything, has ever required that type of number of signatures before.

in such a short space of time.

And the problem is that we can dismiss it because it's ludicrous.

It's utterly ludicrous.

But the problem is that it's not being dismissed.

And if you do a search, if you look at the websites, if you look at the papers, it's everywhere and taken seriously.

It shouldn't be.

It's utter bollocks.

This is Real Madrid.

So it has consequences as well on the player.

And I'm not saying that because I'm a...

huge fan of Kylian Mbappé, about whom I've written a terrific book, which is just out and which you can find in all decent bookshops.

But it is being taken seriously because the headlines are 70, at the beginning, like 2 million people, Timon Mbappé being sold, which becomes 75, becomes 72, 75.

And it's taken, yeah, it's taken seriously.

It's a degradation in the way that we cover news, basically, which I find very concerning.

I'm sure it's water for Doug's back when it comes to Kylian himself.

He doesn't care about that.

And the Real Madrid people, that's not exactly what they're going to base any decision on.