On the eve of Real Madrid's first match in La Liga, scheduled for this Sunday evening in Mallorca, the Italian technician spoke to the media about the integration of the Blues striker. He particularly praised the humility of the former Parisian player.
Full of praise. “Mbappé is an extraordinary talent and we need to help him adapt as much as possible,” Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti said on Saturday ahead of the first La Liga game of the season against Mallorca (9.30pm).
“He integrated very well in the dressing room, he is very serious, he arrived with humility and started very well”, scoring in his first match in the European Super Cup final with Atalanta Bergamo”, added the Italian technician about the French striker. , who trained in front of the media for the first time since his arrival.
“I never ask a player how many goals he should score. What I ask of all the players is to give everything they have for the team. […] Everyone has their qualities, be they tactical or technical, but they have to put them at the service of the team,” Ancelotti said.
Asked about the huge expectations surrounding the reigning Spanish and European champions, the former PSG coach replied that “nobody is talking here about a possible sextuplet, only about the matches we have to play”, even though “with this group we can be competitive in all competitions”.
No new arrivals are planned
“We can't think about what's going to happen in May, we have to do everything we can to get to May as well as possible,” he summed up, as Real prepare to play an extremely long season, adding World of Clubs. Cup next July in an already overloaded calendar.
“To avoid injuries, we are thinking of a way to give individual vacations to players sometimes during the season. Give them a week to rest with their families, especially international players who almost never have days off,” he explained Ancelotti.
He however assured that the team will not move between now and the end of the transfer window, despite the injury to Eduardo Camavinga and the unreplaced withdrawal of Toni Kroos.
“We don't need a centre-back because we think David Alaba will recover well (from last season's serious knee injury, editor's note) and come back well,” he assured, adding “we have young players who are ready to play and who can bring us much.”