Real Madrid Transfers: 5 things we learned from the Kylian Mbappe saga
The pull of Real Madrid is as strong as ever
Again, this may have been more of a reinforcer than something Madridistas only just learned, but 1) it’s never a bad thing to have an important concept reinforced and 2) it never ceases to amaze me how many fans around the world forget the gravity of playing for Real Madrid.
Money, Messi, Neymar, Paris…there are a lot of appealing factors about playing with PSG, to the point where several pundits questioned why Mbappe would even consider leaving this club. Even if he wanted to go to Real Madrid in the future, they wondered why he wouldn’t just play out the final year of his contract in Paris to at least experience playing with Messi and Neymar.
But what they don’t understand is players like Mbappe don’t care about that wishy-washy stuff. They are not interested in deriving pleasure from playing with someone the media anoints as the best. They want to beat that guy. They want to be that guy. That is ambition.
And Real Madrid is the club for the ambitious. It is the club of Di Stefano, Hugo Sanchez, Paco Buyo, Zinedine Zidane, Cristiano Ronaldo, Luka Modric, Ronaldo Nazario, Karim Benzema, Raul, Sergio Ramos, Roberto Carlos, Iker Casillas and so on and so forth. It is the Galactic club and the club where you can write a legacy all to yourself.
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Mbappe has always dreamed of being the big superstar at this club, and, like Ronaldo, being the man to lead them to a new phase of glory from the ashes of a downturn. Real Madrid are a magnet to the most ambitious of attacking superstars, and Mbappe fits the mold. If you can’t understand that, there is an important part of footballing lore that you just don’t quite realize. Clubs like Real Madrid and Barcelona stand alone in their legacies.