Real Madrid is afraid of becoming like PSG!

It only took two short matches for the usual calm that reigned at Real Madrid to be disrupted. Since the official arrival of Kylian Mbappé at the Merengues, Carlo Ancelotti has an additional XXL weapon for a squad that is already exceptional. Except that the arrival of the Frenchman was logically accompanied by questions. Would he integrate into the Madrid locker room? Would Carlo Ancelotti find the formula to make all his attacking stars coexist? From the first days, the Spanish press assured that the answer to the first question had already arrived: Kylian Mbappé has perfectly integrated into his new team.

A global star who arrived on tiptoe, the Bondy player clearly showed his credentials to Vinicius Junior, Jude Bellingham and his ilk. The successful start to the French team captain’s Spanish adventure seemed to be confirmed by a victory in the European Super Cup against Atalanta (2-0). Apart from Vinicius Junior, the stars of the Madrid attack did not have the match of the century, but they worked together to allow Mbappé to score in his first official match. Enough to allow the local press to get excited about the brand new BVM (Bellingham, Vincius, Mbappé). One match later, the tone changed. Held in check on the pitch in Mallorca (1-1), Real Madrid showed shortcomings and Carlo Ancelotti did not appreciate it.

This Tuesday morning, the two main Madrid dailies (AS And Brand) both relayed the Italian coach’s rant towards his players. In short, Carletto criticized his team – and especially his attackers – for not pressing the opponent enough, for being too individualistic or for exposing the full-backs by not coming back to defend enough. Before that, the local media got excited last night because of a post (quickly deleted) by Rodrygo on his social networks. A post in which the Brazilian warned that it was not only the BVM that mattered and that he was also there. So many events that made some people think. A team made up of a multitude of attacking stars, big gaps in defense: is Madrid returning to the first era of the Galacticos where the stars ruled the roost?

General alert in Madrid

Relevo did not beat around the bush: “Panic at the club: Real Madrid, a team where order reigns and that knows how to hurt, could turn into PSG. In the corridors of Valdebebas (Real’s training center, editor’s note), they warn of the danger they have already experienced in the worst years of the Galacticos”. For the media, if Ancelotti lost his temper so quickly, it is because the Italian immediately saw the danger that was looming for his team. With the arrival of Mbappé and the departure of Toni Kroos, Madrid lost its balance. The midfield lost its conductor and found itself with one man less at a time when the attack had one more man. A fact that once again brings back nightmares to the club’s followers.

“A vulnerability that Real Madrid fears with the agglomeration of stars in attack, which recalls the imbalance of the worst era of the Galacticos and that of the departure of Makelele”. In Mallorca, the defensive shortcomings of the Merengues were thus obvious to everyone. Enough to sound the alarm. “It’s panic, forgetting to be the champion of order to fall into the pitfalls of this Paris Saint-Germain with Messi, Neymar and Mbappé”adds Relevowho recalled that if the MNM triumphed in a Ligue 1 without much competition, it lamentably collapsed in the Champions League, Real Madrid’s favorite competition. Accustomed to managing world stars, will the Casa Blanca succeed in finding the solution to maintain its crazy attack while guaranteeing collective defensive efforts? The advantage of this cry of alarm is that it comes at the very beginning of the season and not in the money-time.