Today it is scheduled Real Madrid make public the renewal of Luke Modric, an agreement that the white club saw lost not so many days ago. Finally The midfielder has agreed with Croatia to continue until the Euro Cup next summer in Germany, and in Madrid for one more season. And he will postpone his departure to Saudi Arabia until next season, after playing the Eurocup and saying goodbye to Madrid. The Saudis do not seem to have a problem delaying the landing of the 2018 Ballon d’Or in their league for a year.
Ceballos signs 3 seasons +1 optional
In addition to Modric, the renewal of Daniel Ceballos, who arrived in Madrid this Thursday, after spending part of his vacation, and cHe missed the agreement with the whites for three seasons plus another optional one. All with an increase in his file, which will become four million net per year, and knowing that this year there will be tough competition because there are seven midfielders in the Real Madrid squad.
Both Modric and Ceballos will share minutes with Jude Bellingham, the most outstanding signing of Madrid this summer. Players all with a similar offensive and creative profile, although the Englishman has the most goals of the three. Something that the team will need after the departure of Benzema, Asensio, Hazard or Mariano, with only Joselu Mato arriving. Them Two other substantial midfielders are added for Ancelotti, Toni Kroos and Federico Valverde, and two players with a more physical and defensive profile such as Eduardo Camavinga and Aurelien Tchouameni.
Three tactical variables
Seven footballers for three positions, four in the best of cases. Ancelotti will have to solve his lack of forwards by changing the tactical drawing, which offers him several alternatives. If you bet on a 4-3-3, with Vinicius, Joselu and Rodrygo at the top, the competition will be voracious behind with seven men fighting for three places. Of them it seems that Camavinga and Kroos start with an advantage as anchors and Valverde, Modric and Bellingham as interiors.
If you bet on changing the drawing to a 4-2-3-1, in the double pivot a physical player like Camavinga or Tchouameni would fit as a metronome like Kroos or Modric, leaving Vinicius and Rodrygo or Valverde ahead at the ends, with Joselu of 9, and Bellingham, Modric or Brahím behind.
The last alternative would be a 4-4-2, with the midfield in a rhombus with Kroos or Tchouameni as anchors, Modric or Brahím on the left, Valverde on the right and Bellingham at the point of a rhombus in attack, leaving Vinicius and Rodrygo ahead. Several options in which Ceballos, Tchouameni and Brahím start with inferior opportunities and Modric and Bellingham play the position in most cases.
In the absence of born forwards (only Joselu will be there), Madrid piles up midfielders who must take a step forward to score a goal. In the midst of an environment rarefied by the attitude of Florentino and the club convinced that Ancelotti will end up in Brazil sooner rather than later, Mijatovic has described the coming season as “a season of transition”. A year that hides a trap for the coach who will have to work magic on the board to find in his midfielders the 42 goals that the squad has lost in attack with the departure of Benzema and Asensio.
2023-06-23 05:35:31
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