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Jude Bellingham is now a Real Madrid player, everything is finalized.
One of the year's longest-running transfer sagas came to a conclusion on Wednesday with the confirmation of the teenager's move to the Santiago Bernabeu. Fortunately or sadly, Los Blancos will still be active in other projects this summer.
Karim Benzema's abrupt departure will compel the team to tighten their striker succession plan. It's possible that Luka Modric will use the same Saudi exit as well.
Extreme levels of experience and youth have been combined by Real Madrid. They won the UEFA Champions League and La Liga as a result in 20212022, but alarmingly, they ran out of gas the following year. It's time to refocus for a team with expectations at this level.
Bellingham will give Carlo Ancelotti's team the energy and scruff-of-the-neck bravery they lack once he is completely fit again after a knee injury.
Bellingham might not have shone in the technical clash against Manchester City in May, but he would have at least fought for every inch, in contrast to some of their exhausted veterans that evening. Real Madrid's defense of their European championship ended with a whimper.
In case the world needed any more evidence, Real Madrid's victory in the fight to sign one of football's most sought-after young players demonstrated their ongoing dominance in the transfer market. Your storyline only has one resolution when Los Blancos knock on your home, Florentino Perez knocks, and Sergio Ramos declares that you possess "Real Madrid DNA."
Bellingham has entered the building and will be a part of a midfield group that includes players like Aurelien Tchouameni, Eduardo Camavinga, and Federico Valverde.
It's time to focus on Kylian Mbappe, who has vacillated on his PSG destiny during the past 48 hours. He won't be there beyond 2024, which is almost a certain, and Real Madrid has the ideal window to sign him this summer.
It would be more difficult to include Mbappe in the squad for the following season if the club pursued another center forward target. It's already going to be tight because the Frenchman prefers to play in Vinicius Junior's established position and has already requested that PSG recruit a striker so he won't have to.
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