Being a star today means trying to master everything. All speeches, all messages on social networks are supposed to be anticipated, prepared, weighed, calibrated to the extreme. For a world-renowned footballer like Kylian Mbappé, image management has become a technical gesture almost as crucial as a decisive volley. The staff around him is almost as extensive as that of a professional club. Because you have to plan everything. So when his name is associated with a crime, real or not, it is necessarily extremely serious.
His Swedish escapade between restaurant and nightclub, after being reported sick at the French team rally, already sounded like a false note to some. Even though it was part of his private life. Since Monday and the revelations in the Swedish press about a rape complaint, the 48 hours spent in Stockholm have become downright calamitous.
