By securing the services of Kylian Mbappé, Real Madrid have broken a staggering record. For the first time, a club has three of the four players with the highest market value in the world.
A few days before the kick-off of Euro 2024, Real Madrid has made official the signing of Kylian Mbappé for the next five years. The captain of the French team will join the Casa Blanca club after the European Championship and will complete an already well-stocked attacking sector full of stars with Jude Bellingham, Vinicius Junior and Rodrygo. Carlo Ancelotti will have to rack his brains to make all these great people work together, but the Italian coach will not be pitied by his peers given the rich man’s problems that lie ahead.
For their part, Real Madrid’s directors can rejoice in bringing together three of the four players with the highest market value in the world, namely Bellingham, Mbappé and Vinicius, who are part of the top 4 along with Erling Haaland. As the specialist site Défensa Central points out, this is simply the second time this century that a club has three of the four players with the highest market value on the transfer market. You have to go back to the beginning of the 2020s, when David Beckham, Luis Figo, Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane were at the Merengue, to see such domination in terms of player value. In total, the trio is estimated at 540 million euros since the three players are estimated at 180 million euros, as is Erling Haaland.
Real have a trio worth their weight in gold
Enough to sleep soundly for Florentino Pérez, who knows that in the event of a financial setback, a single sale could solve Real Madrid’s problems. But that is not the objective for the Merengue club, which intends to take advantage of its three jewels to continue to dominate European football in the years to come. The challenge for Real and for Kylian Mbappé will now be to successfully integrate the French international, whose positioning is already being questioned in the Spanish capital. Especially since this season with PSG and the French team, we keep wondering whether the 25-year-old striker is better in the middle or on the wing.
