Real Madrid's 2026-27 campaign: "An amazing season" or "the wheels could come off again"

By Matt Law | 07 Aug 2026 18:44

With Vinicius Junior signing a caller declaration astatine Real Madrid, and the Spanish giants adding Yan Diomande to their squad, Sports Mole's Football Editor Matt Law discusses however Jose Mourinho's broadside could enactment up during the 2026-27 campaign.

Matt Law, Football Editor: "No guarantees that's going to work"

It's going to beryllium absorbing to spot however that works this play with the Diomande signing. Suddenly you've got a beforehand 3 of Vini, Mbappe, and Diomande. No guarantees that's going to work. 

There person been problems with the dynamic adjacent with the magnitude of goals Mbappe scored. There are inactive issues astatine Real Madrid. 

It's not a lawsuit of conscionable saying we've got 3 astonishing attackers. Diomande is inactive comparatively unproven astatine the highest level, but that's going to beryllium immoderate beforehand 3 to ticker adjacent season. 

Diomande connected the right, Mbappe done the middle, and Vini connected the left.

Guler is successful that area, dipping successful and around. You've got Bellingham, Guler, and Diaz. I think they'll spell Diomande successful that area, and Guler tin play successful antithetic areas. 

Mourinho tin alteration his enactment for definite games. Bellingham is amended successful an precocious area. Suddenly you've got a batch of attackers, and not excessively galore of them privation to support excessively overmuch successful that area. 

Valverde tin arsenic well. It's immoderate team, it's immoderate squad. Certainly connected paper, what they've done astatine the backmost arsenic well. It's going to beryllium truly absorbing to spot the constitution of that beforehand three. 

Mbappe volition astir apt get 50 goals and inactive get disapproval that he's not a squad player, adjacent with a ridiculous magnitude of goals. 

It's going to beryllium truly absorbing to spot the dynamic, with each of them being large personalities. There are suggestions that Bellingham and Mbappe don't person the champion relationship. Vini and Mbappe person had their tiffs too. 

It could beryllium an astonishing play astatine Real Madrid oregon the wheels could travel disconnected again similar they did past season, with radical warring successful the dressing room.