{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Philippe Auclair: plotting the path of Kylian Mbappé","description":"French football writer Phiippe Auclair discusses his latest book, The Mbappé Project: Making a Football Superstar, about the careful orchestration of the career of France icon Kylian Mbappé.\n\nPhilippe explains how Mbappé’s family and a tight-knit group of advisers have set a professional and commercial course from Monaco to Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid, and discusses how the complications of that club career have affected perceptions of the FIFA World Cup-winning striker.\n\nHe also explores the differences between Mbappé’s public profile and those of earlier French heroes – including the likes of Eric Cantona and Thierry Henry, subjects of previous Auclair biographies – and what that might tell us about footballers and the media in 2026.\n\nOutlines is presented, produced and edited by Eoin Connolly.\n\nInstagram: @outlines_podcast (https://www.instagram.com/outlines_podcast/)\nThreads: @outlines_podcast (https://www.threads.com/@outlines_podcast)\nBluesky: @outlinespodcast.bsky.social (https://bsky.app/profile/outlinespodcast.bsky.social)\nTikTok: @outlines.podcast (https://www.tiktok.com/@outlines.podcast)\n\nCheck out the newsletter: Outlines – notes in the margins of the sports industry (https://open.substack.com/pub/eoinfconnolly/p/marty-supreme-with-a-side-of-fries)\n\nTheme music from Upbeat: Crush - Kaleidoscope","author_name":"Outlines - a podcast about sport, stories and the media","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5157029-outlines-a-podcast-about-sport-stories-and-the-media","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43643313/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}