Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock. The new chapter in Kylian Mbappé’s already incredible career begins in a few days. The 25-year-old French phenomenon has fulfilled his childhood dream by signing with Real Madrid and, after three and a half weeks of vacation (the French team was eliminated from Euro 2024 on Tuesday, July 9), he will begin his pre-season preparation next Tuesday or Wednesday, at Real Madrid City. It’s time to really get to know his new teammates, far from his comfort at the PSG Campus.
On Saturday evening, after the Clasico lost by the Merengues against Barça (1-2), at the MetLife Stadium in the New York suburbs, Carlo Ancelotti announced the possible starting role of his new number 9 for the European Super Cup, on Wednesday August 14 in Warsaw: “Mbappé can start the Super Cup, obviously, Jude Bellingham too. They are ready”The captain of the Blues obviously began his preparation in his corner, after days of vacation in Miami then Los Angeles.
What place for Mbappé?
It was without some star players (Mbappé, Bellingham but also Dani Carvajal, Ferland Mendy, Aurélien Tchouaméni and Eduardo Camavinga) that Real faced AC Milan and then Barça during its tour in the United States (for a first defeat, 1-0, against the Rossoneri, three days before in Chicago). Thibaut Courtois, Luka Modric, Endrick and Vinicius (who came on against the Milanese) are playing a final match across the Atlantic against Chelsea, Tuesday in Charlotte. Before the return to the Spanish capital.
In front of the press, Carlo Ancelotti also explained that he would not work “at the tactical level until August 7”the first day of training in Madrid. As reported by the local press, the Italian staff is thinking of two tactical systems to put Kylian Mbappé in the best conditions: a 4-3-3 with an attacking trio Rodrygo-Mbappé-Vinicius or a 4-4-2 with the prodigy from Bondy and “Vini” up front, with Jude Bellingham and Rodrygo moving to the wings.
