I want to speak to the manager
With the recriminations over France’s exit in full swing, an unlikely villain has emerged: Veronique, the overbearing mother of midfielder Adrien Rabiot.
Following Kylian Mbappe’s penalty miss, the Parisian battleaxe was spotted by TV cameras berating other players’ families for their performances.
She reportedly told Mbappe’s father his son was “arrogant”, adding: “It is embarrassing how he struck that, for a player of his level. He hit it too lightly. I hope you are going to scold him.”
And she had a 20 minute row with Paul Pogba’s friends and family, after she blamed the Man United midfielder for Switzerland’s late equaliser. It became so heated the stadium stewards had to intervene.
Veronique, who is also Rabiot‘s agent, is famously protective of her son. She previously wrote a letter to manager Didier Deschamps to demand he picked Adrien more often.
Sounds like a healthy mother-son relationship!
