Monaco, a young defender, left a deep impression on European football, just like Leeds United in those days, because of his youthful vigor and the ferocity of his newborn calf. The team lineup is even more amazing. Football talent makes them look so dazzling on the court. The "Six Gentlemen" headed by Mbappé are the indispensable core players of the team, and they have also become the grabbing targets of European giants. In a blink of an eye, three years have passed, and now they have all gone and set foot on a bigger stage. Mbappé, Bernardo Silva and Fabinho have even become the backbone of the top European giants, while Mendi, Bakayoko and lemerre have a bumpy road to growth. Let's review the development of Monaco's "six gentlemen" after they left Monaco.
After the era of peerless pride, who will become the leader of world football? Mbappé is definitely the first choice. Aside from his extraordinary football talent, we can see from the player price list that Mbappé has replaced Mero as the most expensive player in the world. However, if Mbappé really wants to be equal or even surpass the two great predecessors, he needs to make more decisive performances at the club level and lead the team to the highest podium in the Champions League.
At present, Ligue 1 is a "pediatrics" for Mbappé, but how to lead Barley to achieve a qualitative leap in the Champions League is the biggest challenge facing Mbappé. In the winter window of 20 18, barley was introduced to Mbappé by renting before buying, and Mbappé officially entered the threshold of giants. His worth1.200 million euros makes him a football player in the king of world. For Mbappé, who is under 20 years old, the invisible pressure hit him mercilessly, but the young Mbappé was not knocked down. Instead, I proved my value with a positive and bright performance and joined.
The reason why we want to add "one" at the back is because there is also Brazilian superstar Neymar on the striker line of Greater Paris. For example, this season, Mbappé once again handed over a luxury report card that matched his social status, and from the offensive data, he has surpassed Neymar to become the "first brother" in Batali. But from the comprehensive performance of Mbappé and Neymar, Neymar is still the best. We can prove this from the average score after the game. Whether in Ligue 1 or Champions League, Neymar beat Mbappé to become the first team. Especially in the higher-level and more competitive Champions League, Neymar's average score is the best, so Neymar's comprehensive performance is slightly better than Mbappé's.
However, compared with Neymar, Mbappé's greatest advantage is his youth, which means that he has countless possibilities in the future, and Bali will definitely not be the last stop of his career. Real Madrid, which frequently shows him kindness, may be his best destination. Maybe one day, we will see him follow in the footsteps of his idol Cristiano Ronaldo and set foot on the turf of the Bernabeu. Perhaps the world football will really enter the Mbappé era. Of course, if Mbappé wants to be number one in the world, besides his self-discipline and diligence, it is also decisive whether he can get the blessing of his teammates. Just as Cristiano Ronaldo has a midfield iron triangle like modric, Croce and casemiro, Messi also has top midfield combinations like Xavi, Iniesta and busquets.
When it comes to Manchester City's luxurious attack line, Sterling's happy football and De Braune's "cake-feeding" ability will definitely come to your mind first. However, last season, when Braune was absent for more than half a season and Sterling was in a low state, Manchester City still defeated Liverpool in klopp by 1 point and successfully defended the Premier League title. We have to mention Bernardo Silva, the most overlooked player in Manchester City. It was his appearance that made us forget De Braun in the hospital bed.
"There is no doubt that I think Bernardo Silva is quite good. He is already one of the best players in the Premier League, and he obeys the arrangement of the team. Even though he only played for a few minutes, he still had a very good attitude. Bernardo Silva has excellent running ability, and his skills are quite good. He can play many positions and execute tactics according to the coach's arrangement. " This is Guardiola's evaluation of his beloved Bernardo Silva. From a few words, we dare not find Guashuai's appreciation of Bernardo Silva. As Guardiola said, Bernardo Silva is indeed a rare frontcourt generalist. He can play on the winger as well as the front waist. Last season, De Braune was injured for a long time, and the winger added Mahrez, so Bernardo Silva naturally retreated to the position of De Braune. In the front waist position, Bernardo Silva's role in the center and frontcourt played incisively and vividly, helping Manchester City to win the championship and made great contributions.
In fact, when Bernardo Silva played for Monaco, his most frequent position was his front waist. He and Lemal on the left will exchange places frequently in the competition, and on the right is the battlefield where Mbappé gallops. In Monaco's most beautiful season, Bernardo Silva handed in a double-double report card. More importantly, Bernardo Silva also created an excellent scoring opportunity of 13 for the team and was the most threatening offensive player in Monaco.
Although Bernardo Silva is inferior to Mbappé and Leimar in speed and explosiveness, he has exquisite footwork skills, wonderful passing skills and excellent ball dealers, so he is a veritable Monaco frontcourt attack core figure. After joining Manchester City, Bernardo Silva is still the main candidate in Guardiola's mind. Although his position on the court is not fixed, it just fits his all-around attribute and provides more tactical choices for Guardiola's formation. Bernardo Silva was even put in the midfield position by Guardiola, which shows the importance of Bernardo Silva to Manchester City.
Will Real Madrid regret seeing Fabinho play so well in Liverpool? Real Madrid was Fabinho's first stop in Europe, but they sent Fabinho to Monaco for 2.5 million euros of cabbage. Due to the appearance of Sidibe, Fabinho's last two seasons in Monaco were basically stable in the midfield position. Since then, world football may have lost an excellent full-back, but it has gained a world-class midfielder.
Like other players, Fabinho chose to leave Monaco. He joined Liverpool in klopp with a transfer fee of 45 million euros. At the beginning of joining, Fabinho showed a serious maladjustment to the rhythm of the Premier League, and his performance was not satisfactory. The short board that sticks the ball slowly is magnified infinitely, and even klopp is firmly pressed on the bench. Keita was klopp's first choice in midfield that season. However, with Keita's accidental injury, Fabinho gradually adapted to the rhythm of the Premier League, and klopp put him in the position of delaying the midfield until Keita recovered.
Judging from the current situation, Liverpool have found their own Mr. Right in the delayed midfield position. Fabinho's advantages in passing and physical confrontation have reached the extreme in klopp's technical and tactical system. Together with Van Dyke, he has built a solid defensive barrier in Liverpool's midfield, and he is also the main delivery point and receiving point in Liverpool's midfield. With Fabinho around, Van Dyke's ball promotion work has been completed more smoothly.
I think in Monaco's brilliant season, Fabinho averaged an astonishing 3. 1 per game, making him the king of steals in Monaco. His combination of double defenders with Bakayoko has left countless giants behind, and many talented offensive players have fallen in front of this solid midfield defense. Now Fabinho has been promoted to be the central midfielder of the Premier League giants, and klopp's technical and tactical system cannot be separated from Fabinho's contribution.
Fabinho is undoubtedly a successful case of joining the giants, but his former partner Bakayoko is not so lucky. Bakayoko, who moved to the Premier League a season earlier than Fabinho, was completely lost. His performance in Chelsea was in sharp contrast to that in Monaco, and frequent low-level mistakes in midfield made him the chief culprit of the poor record of the Blue Army. If you look at the video of Chelsea's game, many of Chelsea's goals are closely related to Bakayoko. Similar to Fabinho's technical characteristics, the tall Bakayoko also likes to stick the ball, which is slow. He prefers to cross the midfield with the ball. It was his habit of holding the ball that put him in a dilemma. Facing the opponent's high position, Bakayoko, who likes to take the ball, will make many low-level mistakes. Obviously, he underestimated the defensive strength and confrontation strength of the Premier League, so his way of playing football is incompatible with the Premier League.
Bakayoko, who was flustered in the Premier League, moved to Serie A. After joining AC Milan, he showed a good competitive change. After all, compared with the Premier League, most Serie A teams will not adopt the defensive strategy of grabbing people from high positions, which allows Bakayoko to find the space to hold the ball and will not make so many low-level mistakes in the Premier League. However, cash-strapped AC Milan could not buy out Bakayoko. In desperation, Bakayoko once again returned to Monaco, where his dream began.
Facts have proved that Monaco is still the best place for Bakayoko to play football, and he has gradually recovered his familiarity with playing football in his hometown. Judging from Bakayoko's professional experience of moving to Chelsea, AC Milan and then returning to Monaco in a short time, Bakayoko's technical characteristics doomed him to be difficult to stand in the giants. Although he has strong physical fitness and excellent passing and control skills, he lacks rationality and stability in the speed, timing and line of the ball, which is also the fundamental reason why Bakayoko can't play well on a bigger stage.
Like Bernardo Silva, lemerre also handed over two pairs of excellent report cards in Monaco's glorious season. Especially in the higher-level Champions League, lemerre's speed and impact left a deep impression on us. He has also created countless excellent scoring opportunities for the team and is a sword on Monaco's left. Unlike Mbappé, Bernardo Silva, Bakayoko and other players who chose not to leave after the end of the season, lemerre played in Monaco for another season. The most important reason is that Monaco's pricing for lemerre exceeded the expectations of buyers, which also discouraged many giants.
In the eyes of most people, lemerre's strength is far less than that of Mbappé and Bernardo Silva, which may be the main reason why many giants are unwilling to spend huge sums of money to introduce him! However, Simone seems to prefer evil spirits. Atletico Madrid signed Lemal for 70 million euros for the first time in its history, but now Lemal has become a chicken rib player.
Since joining La Liga, Lemal has never been able to integrate into Simone's tactical system. He has been out of the team system like a runaway wild horse. Lemal is more like an "alien" to Atletico, which is famous for its team fighting. Although lemerre's speed and impact are still his greatest advantages, and he also shows his sharp offensive ability on the left, his personal combat ability can't be perfectly integrated into Atletico's overall offensive system, and his help to the team on the offensive end is extremely limited.
This season, Atletico Madrid has fallen into an embarrassing situation of weak attack, but the sheet army, which is still excellent in defense, has never been able to win the game easily, which has greatly affected the team's record. So far, they are still fighting for a ticket for next season's Champions League. When the team was on the verge of despair, lemerre should have dared to show his value, but unfortunately, after wasting a season, he still didn't adapt to the pace of La Liga, and because of lemerre's incompetence, Atletico Madrid had to rent carrasco from Dalian People's Club, a Chinese Super League team, in the winter window. If lemerre's performance can meet the expectations of the club, why should Atletico Madrid "return to grass"?
How lemerre's speed and impact can better serve the overall tactics of the team is a difficult problem that Simone and lemerre need to face together. Recently, rumors about Lemal's transfer are also rampant. There are indications that Simone has little patience with Lemal, but Atletico Madrid is obviously unwilling to sell Lemal at a low price. Selling or staying in the team is a dilemma, which is also an important reason why we define lemerre as a chicken rib player.
However, since Mendy joined Manchester City, injuries have been with him, which naturally greatly affected his attendance. In the first two seasons, Mendy played less than 30% for Manchester City, especially in his first season. After playing only seven games for Manchester City, Mendi suffered the bad luck of season reimbursement, which made Guardiola stretched to the limit in the use of left-backs, and Zincenko and Delve could not satisfy Gua Shuai.
Even if Mendi's attendance rate is so low, Manchester City has never chosen to reinforce the position of left-back in the transfer market in recent seasons, which shows that Guardiola still believes in Mendi. Fortunately, Mendy's injury problem has been greatly alleviated this season. Up to now, Mendy has played for Manchester City 14 games this season. With 1/3 left in the league, Mendi's attendance rate is expected to exceed 50%, which is definitely good news for Guardiola's Manchester City. With the league hopeless, the Champions League has become Manchester City's only goal this season. Can a healthy Mendy help Manchester City win the Champions League in one fell swoop? Let's wait and see!
Monaco's "six gentlemen" were originally on the same starting line. They all witnessed the glorious historical moment of the club, but after years of baptism, the situation is very different. Mbappé is welcoming its own football era; Bernardo Silva and Fabinho both realized their life values in big clubs; Bakayoko, however, turned around and returned to the original point; Lemerre can only waste his time in Iberian Peninsula; Mendy, who is struggling with injuries, needs to prove himself again. Isn't this subway life? Just like alumni who graduated from a university at the same time, some people have reached the peak of their lives, some people live a small life with rice, oil, salt, vinegar and tea, and some people are embarrassed by defeat. The football world is a highly concentrated human world, from which you can taste different tastes of life!