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Football is a hard drug that offers immediate satisfaction and indignation; viewed through its prism, Kylian Mbappé can be idolised and Lionel Messi sacrificed in the same game. Reason has nothing to do with it: the drug attacks your emotions – and at the cost of the footballers.

Mbappé cost €150m before he was worth that. As there is more money than talent on the market, promise and expectation get bought at the price of reality. The price turned the media spotlight on this prodigious child and so a ceremony of confusion began. Football is a very serious game but it is full of people doing all they can to make idiots of footballers.

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from Football | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2NoFxD2