Zinédine Zidane dismisses reports of soured relationship with Kylian Mbappé as ‘nonsense’ and ‘quite annoying’

Ahead of Thursday night’s match against Turkiye, which Kylian Mbappé (27) missed due to a minor muscular injury, the relationship between the captain of the France national team and the recently installed manager, Zinédine Zidane, was called into question.

L’Équipe reported that the pair had failed to establish a working relationship. Mbappé, the report stated, did not agree with his repositioning out on the left during the previous international break, whilst the relationship more broadly was described as “less harmonious” than the…

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