{"id":24406,"date":"2026-05-16T10:28:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T10:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/24406\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T10:28:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T10:28:58","slug":"arbeloas-old-mbappe-tweet-resurfaces-amid-real-madrid-controversy-hes-like-young-luke-skywalker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/24406\/","title":{"rendered":"Arbeloa\u2019s old Mbapp\u00e9 tweet resurfaces amid Real Madrid controversy: \u2018He\u2019s like young Luke Skywalker\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fans do not have much time to read good news about their club as Real Madrid<\/a> goes from one scandal to another. Kylian Mbapp\u00e9<\/a> was the one who unexpectedly started this latest issue with \u00c1lvaro Arbeloa<\/a> over his benching. However, an old tweet from the manager has resurfaced.<\/p>\n

Arbeloa wrote: \u201cMbapp\u00e9 is like young Luke Skywalker. You know that sooner or later he\u2019ll dominate the world. He\u2019s a beast!\u201d Fans dug it up because it was posted on June 20, 2018, when the Frenchman was dazzling as a teenager at the World Cup his country won with him as the main attacking player.<\/p>\n

It was a curious reminder of what Arbeloa thinks of Mbapp\u00e9 as a player. However, it is very possible that the manager is now tired of the player\u2019s antics, especially after the two gave different versions of the conversation they had before the match against Real Oviedo.<\/p>\n

Arbeloa-Mbapp\u00e9 incident<\/p>\n

This was not a dispute like the one last week between Federico Valverde<\/a> and Aurelien Tchouameni<\/a>, which left the Uruguayan out for 10 to 14 days. It was a difference in what they told the media after the win.<\/p>\n

\"Mbapp\u00e9<\/p>\n

see also<\/p>\n

Mbapp\u00e9 sparks new Real Madrid scandal with Arbeloa: \u201cThe manager told me I was the fourth forward\u201d<\/p>\n

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The player said Arbeloa left him out of the lineup because he was the fourth forward behind Franco Mastantuono, Vinicius and Gonzalo Garc\u00eda, which was a question for the manager.<\/p>\n

When Arbeloa was asked about what Mbapp\u00e9 had said minutes earlier, he reacted with surprise and said he did not say that phrase to Mbapp\u00e9, turning it into another scandal.<\/p>\n

The final matches<\/p>\n

Real Madrid must finish the season in a more respectable way after failing to win a title despite the club\u2019s history. While they will not move from second place behind Barcelona<\/a>, they need to get wins to calm their fans a bit. Their final matches are against Sevilla away and Athletic Club at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans do not have much time to read good news about their club as Real Madrid goes from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1055,557,301,82,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-24406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-madrid","8":"tag-alvaro-arbeloa","9":"tag-kylian-mbappe","10":"tag-la-liga","11":"tag-madrid","12":"tag-real-madrid"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}