Kylian Mbappe Transfer to Real Madrid

Kylian Mbappe Transfer to Real Madrid

Real Madrid is going through a tough period in La Liga and UCL. We all know they have always been poor in defense over the years. Cristiano Ronaldo’s goal at the front has always hidden this crack at the back. Now, CR7 is no longer at Real Madrid we all can witness how poor Real Madrid are in defense. They are very vulnerable to counters.

Let us check Real Madrid performance over the past 3-4 Seasons. 

Ronaldo was with Real Madrid till the 2017/18 season. If we compare Real Madrid's performance with and without CR7 we can see there is fall in no of goals scored in a season. 

During 2016/17 and 2017-18 with CR7 Real Madrid had scored 321 goals in Total. While without CR7 in 2018/19 they scored only 108 goals i.e, 33% decline in Goals. Everyone knows where the problem lies at Real Madrid. Still, Perez did not address the issue at the beginning of the 2018/19 season, and Real Madrid ended up having a poor season. There was an opportunity to in the 2019/20 summer transfer window to add goal scorer to the roster, but Madrid ended up buying Hazard and Jovic. Hazard is more of a playmaker than a goalscorer while Jovic is finding it difficult to get the ball back in the net.

If we Check out CR7 performance in the 2016/17 & 2017/18 season we can see how important was Ronaldo for Real Madrid success. Ronaldo contributed almost 33% of the Goals by either scoring or setting others. 

Season	Games	CR7 Goals + Assist	RM Goals	CR7 contribution
2016-17	46	54	173	31%
2017-18	44	52	148	35%

Kylian Mbappe Transfer to Real Madrid can help Los Blancos

Real Madrid will be seriously considering to purchase a player of Mbappe caliber who can change the game at any moment. Mbappe is turning himself to be a complete goalscorer. Since joining PSG from Monaco he has scored 66 goals in 95 games. 

Season	Apps	Goals	Goals/Game
2017–18	44	21	0.48
2018–19	43	39	0.91
2019–20	8	6	0.75

His goals/game has increased from 0.48 to 0.91 from 2017/18 to 2018/19 season almost double. While in this current season it is near to 0.75 which is impressive.

Mbappe style of play is quite similar to that of Thierry Henry. He is good with both feet who is quick and can play as a winger or striker. At a young age, he has shown a lot of composure at the World Cup and helped France to win the WC. Apart from these, he is a great dribbler and a threat on one on one situation. His WC performances have been compared to Pele and Ronaldo(Brazil).

Mbappe has a great potential to win Balon D' or and he can make his dream come true at Real Madrid. Even at the beginning of the season he showed his possibility of leaving but continued at PSG. Real Madrid would like to buy him by next season but it looks highly unlikely because Neymar is looking to leave PSG by the end of this season and PSG cannot afford to lose both Neymar and Mbappe in the same season. Real Madrid will have to wait till 2021/22 to make a serious attempt to sign their Galactico.