The time is for the balance sheet for Kylian Mbappé. Pending the next club World Cup which may still guide reasoning (June 15, 2025-July 13, 2025), we can already have fun judging on play the first season of the French striker at Real Madrid. No need to recall the fantasies aroused by his arrival a year ago. In Spain, we promised Monts and Merveille at the Merengue club, just crowned European champion and embraced by the arrival of the 2018 world champion.
Despite a first title in August in the European Super Cup against Atalanta, the year I of the Frenchman has related more to a running season. Collectively, the transplant was slow to take, but it would be too simplistic to summarize this season without a major trophy to the simple presence of Mbappé … It is not as if Real Madrid had just lost one of the greatest circles of its generation at the same time. Nevertheless, it took several months before rediscovering the best version of the Frenchman, which the Merengues supporters would have liked to see against Liverpool or Arsenal this season.
A second part of the seamless season
Among its most striking performances of the season, we will still remember its fantastic hatch against Manchester City (3-1), or facing Barça of a Lamine Yamal finally too strong (4-3). This first cuvée of Kylian Mbappé – and we will not be able to remove it – is also a historic season in figures. His antennas remained drawn up as soon as a record was in the vicinity and on arrival, the Frenchman appropriated more than one brand. With 42 goals scored, he is by far the top scorer in the history of the Merengues in a first season at the club (Zamorano had stayed at 37, and CR7 at 33). He also became the first player to score at least 28 goals in La Liga for his first season, from Ronaldo R9 in 1997 with Barça (he finished with 31 championship achievements, a first for him since 2019).
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In a collective that sometimes tank at the end of the season, with a less brilliant vinicius junior and a less inspired Rodrygo, he endorsed a XXL costume and maintained the hope of title in the league, thanks to determining goals (his double against Villarreal, that against Leganés, the double against Celta de Vigo …). A season completed on hungry bases and which should even allow him to win the first golden shoe in his career, in addition to having won his first Pichichi (31 goals, far ahead of Lewandowski and his 25 goals). Mohamed Salah would have to write a quadrupled against Crystal Palace on Sunday to spoil his dreams. To Xabi Alonso, now, to find the perfect cocktail to capitalize on the shape of his player. That's also why he was chosen.
