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Football Daily | The Mbappé conundrum: good enough for any team, too expensive for most

16-Feb-2024 16:11:43 | The Guardian

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Following the revelation that Kylian Mbappé intends to leave Paris Saint-Germain when his contract expires this summer, Football Daily immediately presumed talk at today’s round of top-flight managerial press conferences would turn to potential destinations for the French superstar striker. “Are you eating a sandwich, in front of me, a Premier League manager?” we envisaged an apoplectic Chris Wilder inquiring, as a local reporter dabbed what looked like sauce from a Greggs chicken baguette from around his lips, before enquiring about the possibility of Mbappé pitching up at Bramall Lane on a free.

The photo of Jürgen Klinsmann’s Zoom call (yesterday’s Quote of the Day) suggests that the South Korea team played a 3-2-5-5-1-8 formation at the Asian Cup. Perhaps I now understand their tactical difficulties at the tournament” – Mike Wilner.

Can I give Everton goalkeeper Richard Wright an honourable mention in the list of self-inflicted injuries (Football Daily letters passim)? Three years after damaging his shoulder falling out of a loft, in February 2006 he injured his ankle in the warm up at Goodison Park, when he fell over a sign that, if my memory serves me right, said ‘Do not warm up here’” – Alan Runswick.

How’s this for a shaggy-dog tale of freak knack?” – Lean Ka-Min.

The shirtless individual next to Steve Coppell must be Stan Ternent (yesterday’s Memory Lane), who was manager of Bury when we rose from Division Three to Division One in successive seasons, and went on to get Burnley promoted. The football at Gigg Lane wasn’t pretty, but it was effective, and he’s Bury’s most successful manager in my lifetime” – Mick Norris.