Kylian Mbappé “is highly anticipated by Real Madrid, we have a lot of hope in him”, explains a Spanish journalist

Real Madrid signing Kylian Mbappe will be presented to 80,000 fans at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in Madrid on Tuesday at noon.

Kylian Mbappé “is highly anticipated by Real Madrid, we have a lot of hope in him”explains Juan José Dorado, an independent Spanish journalist, on franceinfo on Tuesday. “The French nugget”, will be presented at midday to 80,000 Real Madrid fans at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium. But the integration of Kylian Mbappé into a legendary club after a failed Euro far from his best level risks being difficult warns Juan José Dorado.

franceinfo: Is the arrival of Kylian Mbappé highly anticipated in Madrid?

Juan Jose Dorado: She was expected. It comes at a rather unusual time since Spain won the Euro. On Monday evening, the Spanish team celebrated this title with the Spaniards in the streets of Madrid. That doesn’t prevent the fact that there is a lot of anticipation for the arrival of Kylian Mbappé. More than 80,000 people will gather at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium at 12 noon to see the French nugget.

“He’s the one who will take Real Madrid further in the competitions.”

Juan José Dorado, journalist

to franceinfo

Let’s not forget that Kylian Mbappé is going to play a very full season with Real Madrid. There are no less than seven titles to win.

Mbappé didn’t have a great Euro. Isn’t this the best time to arrive at this great club?

It’s true that he hasn’t shone, but he’s only 25. He’s one of the best players in the world. He’s highly anticipated by Real Madrid. We have a lot of hope for him. It’s not for nothing that Real have been trying to get him into their squad for seven years. It’s true that there’s this gap at the moment, but it will be quickly forgotten in a few weeks when he puts on the jersey and steps onto the pitch at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium for his first match with Real.

How will Mbappé integrate into a team that has found a good balance of play?

This balance will inevitably be modified. Just on the tactical level, we will have to find a way to play Kylian Mbappé and Vinicius for example. But Real are used to this type of arrival. Before, it was Zidane, Beckham too and Ronaldo. The team will be much more offensive, that’s for sure. There will be an impact because we will have to play Vinicius and Mbappé, two players who normally play on the same side. It will go much faster than it already was with Real Madrid.

We risk seeing a Real Madrid that will score a lot of goals this season. When Ronaldo left, he scored around 50 goals per year. Benzema more or less replaced him. We are waiting to actually find a goalscorer like Ronaldo was. This goalscorer is called Kylian Mbappé. There is no doubt on the side of Spain and on the side of Real.

How will Carlo Ancelotti have to manage Kylian Mbappé’s personality?

He is someone who has experience. He was a great player and he is a great coach. He is used to managing the egos of each person in a big institution. There is still a change that must be taken into account. He knows that he is arriving at a club that is an institution where his power will not have the same weight that it could have at PSG. He will have to fit into the Real Madrid mold.

The club invited Cristiano Ronaldo, who has been the great player of Real Madrid in the last ten years, to leave. Before him, it was Casillas and Ramos. They were stars. Real Madrid does not marry a player. Mbappé knows where he is arriving, he knows what he will have to do, but he also knows that he will not have the weight of Real Madrid on his shoulders because next to him, you will have Vinicius, Bellingham, Valverde, Tchouaméni. In addition, they arrive in an institution where the Frenchman is in place with Tchouaméni, Camavinga and Mendy, three Frenchmen who are waiting for him in this locker room.