In 2008, Rabiot was signed to the Manchester City academy on a six year deal that should have seen him turn professional when he turned 17. But six months after signing, the deal is killed because Rabiotâs mom became angry at the clubâs âtreatment of her boyâ.
The kid then joins PSG and even with Rabiotâs talents itâs difficult to envisage him earning first team experience (cause he really wasnât that good). However, the club and Laurent Blanc worked with the mom and showed their willingness to work with the kid and allowing him to gradually develop, introducing him to the first team in the manner that Sir Alex Ferguson did with David Beckham and Wayne Rooney.
In 2013 Rabiot and his mom grew impatient and he is sent on loan to Toulouse to earn more playing time. His temporary departure earned him and his mom criticism in the media for their impatience with the club.
After Rabiot returns to PSG from loan, Laurent Blanc Blanc begins to start him in 1 of 2.5 games at the beginning of the season. In the middle of the second half of the season, Rabiotâs mom threatens that his son will attempt to leave the club if he is not given more playing time with Matuidi, Verrati, Thiago motta and Pastore in the squad. As a result Laurent Blanc starts him in more games.
In 2015, towards the end of the season before Zlatan Ibrahimovicâs contract is about to run out, Rabiot and Zlatan get into a fight at the training center in Paris.
While Thiago Motta was getting old and eventually was unable to play at a high level, he was replaced by Rabiot as a defensive midfielder in important games. He played very well at this position and fans grew excited as they thought they had found the perfect replacement for Thiago motta. Instead of serving his club by playing in whatever position that would help the team win games, he and his mom complained to the coach and president that this was not the role he wanted to have at the club as he wanted a more sexy type of style in games and attack instead of defending. Even though he was much better at defending than attacking, him and his mother would whine about it. Even in the champions league games Rabiot would go against playing as a starting defensive midfielder. Despite these demands, the coach would still sometimes put him at the 6 position with the goal of winning and putting the team before the individuals. Which probably led to even more disgusting behavior from the Rabiot family as they didnât completely get what they wanted as theyâre used to.
Rabiot has been often seen as a cry baby that complains to his mom whenever he doesnât get what he wants. Due to him coming from a rich family, it makes sense as to why he cries whenever he doesnât get what he wants.
The President of PSG, Nasser Al Khelaifi, appears to be a big fan of Rabiot, regardless of the sh*t he and his mother give him, he has always said he sees Rabiot as a son and has even gone to treat him as the favorite of the team. Perhaps this was just to keep the Rabiot family happy and to make the mom shut up but it definitely didnât stop them from complaining.
In 2018, Didier Deschamps picks his World Cup squad for the French National team and picks Rabiot to be in the reserves meaning he would be picked into the first team if a midfielder had gotten injured. Rabiot who had only played 5-6 games with France with a performance lower than what it usually is at his club, feels insulted that he is put on the reserves and requests that he is removed from it right away. Instead of Rabiot, Didier had picked Pogba, Matuidi, KantĂ©, Tolisso, and Nzonzi. Who had proven at the time to be much better players in their clubs and on the national team. Even though France is one of the countries with an abundance of very talented players, Rabiot could not see the honor in being considered by being placed in the reserves. Didier Deschamps who strongly believes in the honor and dignity of representing âLe maillot bleuâ states that Adrien made âa big mistakeâ by making this decision as he missed out on possibly wining the World Cup and might never be considered for the French national team again.
After Rabiot decided to remove himself from the national team, the media and fans lashed at him for being the complacent little baby that he is and for not respecting the honor of representing les bleus. Of course as powerful as his mother seems to be, she could not control what the media and fans had to say. So instead, he wrote a statement disagreeing towards the label of him being âimmatureâ. The kid cried at people for calling him names.
I must say that when I became a PSG fan, the first time I heard of Rabiot I was not impressed. I found nothing special about his skills and didnât like the personality he had as he seemed to have a very selfish character. I figured that since he was young he would develop into being a pretty talented and mature player, but even now I donât see the improvement.
Itâs frustrating how this guy has been playing PSG all along. I myself knew that he wasnât going to renew a contract as it became increasingly obvious that these contract negotiations werenât moving forward. We now know that all of that was part of Rabiot and his entourageâs (momâs) plan. Keep stalling so you donât get put on the bench until you can leave while screwing the club over by leaving the midfield open.
We sold Matuidi just so that we could give Rabiot the chance to grow and become the âSteven Gerard of PSGâ like he had stated before. He stalls contract talks and makes it seem like he does want to stay, the club meets his demands even though he seems to think he deserves to have the salary of Messi. And now PSG is going to lose one of its starting midfielders when they are already in the absence of a 6. And with FFP sticking to PSG like moths on a lamp post at night, it looks like itâs going to be extremely difficult to replace both positions. For all we know he could not even be a true PSG fan and just forced his way out of the academy into his starting role with the bitching of his mom. Itâs just funny that PSG defended this child after the big mistake he had made with the French National team.
In conclusion, although it may screw PSG over, Iâm glad that a scumbag like him is leaving PSG. I hope that PSG wins a bunch of champions league trophies without him as well as France with the Euros and the World Cup. I hope he ends up having a sh*t career and karma kicks him and his mother in the ass so hard that he ends up playing in the third division of the Bulgarian League where the Bourgeois would never step foot.
Him and Ben Arfa are definitely on my sh*t list. I donât ever want to hear about these two or see them on a screen in my life again.
Let Barcelona have him. If they think theyâre getting back at us for Neymar, they are in for a treat.
https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/a7gyp0/the_reasons_why_rabiot_is_so_hated/Taken from reddit and very interesting read. Maybe he just needs to join his dream club to settle and be happy?
Anyway, there are always 2 sides to the story, so I rather not assume and wait to hear his side, and if Klopp is interested and signs him up, I would trust his character judgement more than the hate going around the media and fans.