Ancelotti finds Real Madrid’s new “joker”.. He will play in 4 positions next season

Real Madrid’s attacking squad, at the moment, is five players according to the club’s official website: Mbappé, Vinicius, Rodrygo, Brahim and Endrick.

But there is a sixth man there with whom the positions are doubled and who promises to cause a lot of trouble in the 2024-25 season: Arda Güler.

The Turk will be Ancelotti’s wild card for the next campaign, a player capable of appearing in midfield, either as an inside midfielder or as an attacking midfielder, and in attack as a right winger or even up front, a position in which he shone in the recent European Championship, where he scored one of the goals of the tournament.

Ancelotti, in fact, already anticipated last season that where he sees the most possibilities for Güler is as a striker: “I think the closer to the goal, the better. He is very effective, he scores a lot with little space, he has a special talent. He shows it better closer to the goal. We are talking about a boy who has more goals than minutes played and that can only be a gift .”

Normal, given the figures that the Turk left in the little he was able to play during the 2023-24: six goals in 440 minutes, that is, one every 73 minutes.

But Carletto is not afraid to also use him as a midfielder when circumstances dictate it, which is not far-fetched given that Kroos is no longer available and that Tchouameni will accumulate quite a few minutes as a centre-back.

The risk there is in his role without the ball, in the limitations of his physique to cover so much ground: “It is a limit that he has, he must improve there and he is doing so,” said the coach. But at the Cibeles party he already anticipated that there will be much more Güler this season: “He is a very interesting boy…”

Source: AS