Vinicius Junior

Analysis: Can Vinicius Jr position change ease Kylian Mbappe into Real Madrid?

Real Madrid’s final weeks of the summer transfer window will be dominated by Kylian Mbappe.

The push to bring Mbappe to remains remains unchanged but his next step in Paris is gridlocked with the Paris Saint-Germain hierarchy still trying to sell him.

PSG’s hard line approach is yet to yield results, with Mbappe rejecting a move to Saudi Arabia, as he only wants to join Los Blancos.

The scenario now looks to be moving towards two solutions, completing his final year in Paris, and moving to Madrid in 2024, or completing a bold switch this summer.

Kylian Mbappe

Whether in 2023 or 2024, Mbappe looks certain to complete his destined switch to Real Madrid, with Carlo Ancelotti already making plans for him.

Mbappe played almost exclusively as a striker in a two-man attack last season, with a licence to drift into the left channel, and wreak havoc on opposition defences.

The French international has previously hinted at his frustration at playing a central striker, restricted by position, with his natural role causing a possible crossover with Vinicius Junior.

However, Ancelotti has revealed his intention to play Vincius in a more central spot this season with future tweaks a possible nod to bringing in Mbappe.

Kylian Mbappe

“I have to think about it and so does he. Vini likes to play a little more inside. On the outside he makes the difference, but on the inside, he can score more goals”, as per reports from Marca.

“In preseason, Vini has done very well against Milan and Manchester United. It’s true he could have been a little more successful against Barcelona, ​​but he had many opportunities.

“I don’t know if he would have those scoring chances playing outside.”

Ancelotti’s comments hint at his ongoing intention to play with two players in attack this season following Karim Benzema’s departure.

Vinicius will fill one of those places, with the other one a straight battle to play between Rodrygo Goes and Joselu, before Mbappe’s arrival.

A central Vinicius, either in a two or three, would grant Mbappe the freedom he likes to rampage at defences, with Vinicius determined to add a ruthless goal streak to his all round game in the coming years

Tags Carlo Ancelotti Joselu Karim Benzema Kylian Mbappe Paris Saint-Germain PSG Rodrygo Goes Vincius Junior

33 Comments

  1. If it happens, it has the potential to be a very problematic pairing for the opponent. Two top talents with that kind of speed and creativity would be a nightmare to defend, especially with a talented midfield behind them.

  2. If truly he comes, a change of formation would be required. We could play 4-2-3-1. Tchouameni and Can as double pivot, Rodrygo, Bellingham and Vini.jr, then Mbappe as the striker. This would heep more mysery on opponents defenses

  3. potential is the key word here,not all big name prima donnas play well with others just look at psg as the perfect example with mbappe,messi,neymar the whole of europe was trembling with fear at the very thought of their front 3 and at the end of the day what did they all achieve together VERY LITTLE another great example was the 2022 world cup final everyone kept saying france with all their brilliant individual talents would destroy an average old aged argentina defence and just look at how that turned out lol.

    1. With one not-so-insignificant detail being overseen here: none of Neymar, Messi or Mbappe actually wanted to play for PSG where Mbappes dream club is RM as well as Vini telling countless times that he wants to retire here. There is a slight difference in playing for a monthly wages and playing with passion.

      Terrible argumentation from a terrible poster.

      1. Thats rich coming from you and considering all this passion and dream your spouting on about is this from the same player that already turned use down once before to sign a contract extension with psg lmfao Terrible argumentation from a terrible poster

        1. Rich coming from me? Im not the one who compared slavery to being bald buddy. That is the kind of talk that is hard to forget even for this page.
          You are uneducated and ignorant and most likely stupid, probably dumbest poster on this page.

          Second of all even Messi turned down Barcelona twice, but he played his best for Barcelona so my point remains.

          1. Again as i stated on the post you refer too i actually acknowledge that there are multiple forms of abuse and not only one which tunnel visioned people like yourself can only see have a nice day and keep playing the poor me card for forca barca

          2. And again I state that you cannot compare apples with oranges.
            Slavery derived from racism. So did Nazism as their ubermensch theory was built on thesis that one race is better than other.

            Have you seen any bald people being sold as cattle or killed, mutilated, lynched etc. because they are bald? Or gassed in chambers? No? Then dont be an idiot.

            You are comparing worst thing humanity ever managed to crap out to an old guys vanity and hurt pride over losing hair.

            Read a book.

          3. Yes dont worry im currently reading a best seller here at the minute which is written by yourself called “How to be an idiot online” and its a great read and insight into how your mind works.

          4. I think you are exposing your idiocy just fine, for instance comparing racism to being bald.

            I wonder if your damages are genetic or a product of bad education.

  4. there are two sides to football my friend attacking and defending please don’t underestimate the defending part 😉

      1. I’ll try and be as clear here as i can for you as your obviously a little bit slow,uneducated,ignorant or just playing dumb is this the same europa league defence that the mighty real failed to score against in the usa and that barca won 3-0 ? yea i thought so 😂🤣

        1. Ill try to even spell it slower.

          Is
          it
          the
          same
          def
          that
          got
          rocked
          0-4
          in
          last
          competitive
          game
          and
          got
          destroyed
          twice
          in
          Europa
          League?

          If so, you should not talk about defences, but since you are stupid, uneducated and ignorant it does not surprise me that you are as one dimensional as a picture.

          1. isn’t it very interesting that this terrible barca defence you keep criticizing and pointing out was the best defence in la liga last year and by quite the distance aswel i might add,even all the more interesting here coming from a guy telling me not to talk about defences whose team shipped 5 goals against man city last year lmao.

          2. Best Defensive Records : 2022 – 2023 (goals conceded)
            Overall
            Barça 20
            Atlético 33
            Sociedad 35
            Real Madrid 36

          3. Oh my is this slow,uneducated,one dimensional,ignorant person actually providing an argument cold hard facts what shock horror lol

          4. I am asking you again.

            Thats fantastic. How many League titles did you win with that defence in last 5 years?

            Oh one?

            Haha.

            How many champions leagues in last 9 years? One?

            Haha.

            The perfect example of when an uneducated, dumb and ignorant idiot tries to skewer statistics and failes miserably.

            That perfect defence shat it’s pants when it mattered. Not conceding to lower tier teams in La Liga will not change that fact.

          5. Oh right for the sake of argumentation, it should be asked how many Europa League titles did you win with that defence.

            Zero? What, instead you got eliminated in a second tier competition?

            Haha.

  5. If mbappe added to madrid square, their can destroy difference of every opponent this season, it will be very hard to defeat this time alongside arda guler uuuum

    1. If you had an argument it would be more effective. Reality is when Mbappe comes to this side you will not see a Liga trophy for another decade.

      1. I don’t need an arguement lol what i stated are true facts don’t believe me all anybody simply has to do is look up psgs trophy count while playing with mbappe,messi,neymar in the team together,can you provide an arguement or facts to back up your claim that if mbappe goes to your club barca will not see a liga trophy for another decade ? No ? i didn’t think so lol

        1. *I don’t need an arguement* bla bla

          No its obvoious since arguments sound better in your head but in reality they are hilarious.

          It is pretty obvious. If you got destroyed 0-4 in last competitive El Clasico just try to picture what Mbappe will add to that whopping.
          But since you are uneducated, and idiot and ignorant, extrapolating might be a slightly difficult task.

  6. None of neymar,messi,mbappe actually wanted to play for psg 👏👍 brilliant thats the best one I’ve heard yet,let me guess all 3 just went there for the good of their health 🤣😂

    1. Obviously they went to become rich and since you are apparently on the slower side it needs to be spelled out.
      Nobody can blame a player for securing an economical future for his family.

      PSG failed because a project bought togeher without history or culture is doomed because players will not care about the club but primarily to get paid. A player will always perform better when playing for a club he loves.

      1. Obviously mbappe,messi,neymar,verratti,di maria,cavani,ibrahimovic,Skriniar,lucas hernández,marco asensio,sergio ramos,mauro icardi,keylor navas,leandro paredes,georginio wijnaldum,julian draxler,gianluigi donnarumma,marquinhos,achraf hakimi,fabián ruiz,renato sanches and all these continuing and endless supply of big name players all just went to psg for the money very interesting 🤔 lmao all these same mentioned big name players couldn’t and wouldn’t of got rich for them and their future families by going to big money clubs in the premier league,saudi arabia,Qatar,china,germany,spain ect ect ? no ? dont make me laugh again please 🤣🤣 and come back into the real world again please 👍👏

        1. But we are talking about Messi, Neymar and Mbappe here. Since you are an idiot you love to use different strawmen and it is at least to say laughable.

          Messi cried because he was forced to go. You of all people should know that. Does that sound like a player who wants to go? Since he declined to re-sign a contract in Barcelona and lower salary it is pretty obvious that money played a big role.
          Neymars release clause was triggered. He also mentioned him regretting move several times in media and wanted to go back.
          Mbappe wanted to go to Real but he would not have a chance to play alongsides Bale, Ronaldo and Benzema. He went to PSG to gain experience and earn money. He got both and now he will come here for a bargain and give us his prime years.

          You sound like you are clueless at football, not only ignorant, dumb and uneducated in real life.

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