Jude Bellingham appeared in the summer of 2023 in the Madrid sphere. It was a signing announced at the time, but no less special and different for that reason. He arrived as a midfielder and began to play closer to the rival area than he had done in his history. Well, in short, He will return to playing in the center of the field. At least that is the idea of the coaching staff for what is coming.
The first debate that arose around the English player was about the position he was going to occupy on the field of play. Carlo Ancelotti had it very clear from the beginning. As much as he has now with the arrival of Mbappé, a circumstance that, by the way, has not been officially communicated to him. Being 2023 he recovered the midfielder position of attack for the former Borussia Dortmund player, the midfield will be the Englishman’s natural habitat in the upcoming campaign.
The Italian used a game system in which he recovered, for the attack, the playmaker as such, a position that has become extinct in today’s football. The rhombus began to work, but above all because of Bellingham’s defensive involvement, covering the left zone of the center of the field and giving sense to a system that demands the most. So much so that Ancelotti himself has described the Englishman’s season as excellent.
A year later, and with the arrival of Kylian Mbappé announced in time, the question arises of how to fit in so many good players that Real Madrid is going to have in its squad starting next June 30. The one who is least worried about all this is Carlo Ancelotti. “Give me differential players and I will know how to use them,” the Madrid coach thinks out loud.
List of stars under Ancelotti
Throughout his entire career, Ancelotti has known how to get the most out of the world football figures he has had under his command. Mbappé can be the icing on the cake to that long list of stars that he has had at his disposal in the different teams that he has managed. Kaká, Cristiano Ronaldo, Ibrahimovic, Maldini, Benzema, Drogba, Beckham… They are some of those stars that Ancelotti has coached, apart from the current ones and who shape Real Madrid, 23-24.
The configuration of next season’s squad will not be the same as the one it may have had this year. One of the characteristics of their current players is that they can vary positions. Bellingham arrived as a midfielder and has performed sometimes almost up to nine. Few believed that Vinicius could play inside and he is doing so. Valverde has come to appear in four different positions in the same match, giving shape to Ancelotti’s ability to convince the footballer, something that did with Camavinga during the last campaign playing left back or Tchouameni in the present, as central.
In the press conference prior to the match against Alavés, the Real Madrid coach himself acknowledged that Bellingham’s first mission is not to score goals. His success served to make us forget Benzema’s departure, along with Joselu’s aim. Well, next season the Englishman will return to a more natural opposition, apparently prior to his arrival to the white team. He will be more of a midfielder and not only becauser the arrival of Mbappébut due to the configuration and need of the template.
Bellingham is an innate talent for football and has already shown plenty of quality to do so. like another midfielder, capable of generating and destroying alike. His quality could serve to carry the weight of the team’s game at certain times. And English is a total player, of those that now prevail in the market. The goal is sweet, but Bellingham knows that in football, the team is above all.
2024-05-16 03:58:26
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