The Crisis of Real Madrid’s Missing Center Forward: A Looming Problem for Carlo Ancelotti

Carlo Ancelotti and his team are working overtime these days to see how they rebuild the team, in the midst of a plague of injuries. Nine players from Real Madrid fill the Madrid infirmary, the last Vinicius Jr y Camavingavictims of virus FIFA. However, the loss that weighs the most on the merengue coaching staff has been going on since the beginning of the season and is not due to an injury but to an unprecedented situation in the Santiago Bernabeu: the lack of a world-class center forward.

With the departure of Karim Benzema In June, from Chamartín’s offices they decided to play with a single card, that of Kylian Mbappé, eager this time to land in Madrid. However, the option of the Frenchman, who came to be separated by the PSG in July and who was given the transferable sign, was frozen due to the price they were asking from Paris via Qatar and due to the wear and tear in Madrid in previous seasons that made no one pick up the phone.

The departure of Mariano Yes, it was covered by the technical secretariat with the already announced signing of Joselu, but not Benzema’s. Just the exceptional performance so far Bellingham, now also injured, has covered up the debate about the incomprehensible situation of the team, without number 9 for the first time in its history. Although there is practically no trace of the issue in the media, within the locker room the reality is different and the contrast with rivals in LaLiga such as the Barça and the Atléticocon Lewandowski y Morata or in Europe like the Bayern and the Manchester Citycon Harry Kane y Haalandrespectively.

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Ancelotti values ​​Joselu very positively, but not at the level of the great 9 in the history of Real Madrid as Benzema was. A loss that has no signs of being covered before the summer and that (almost) no one talks about despite the overdraft that he leaves on the team.

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