The unusual case of Ferland Mendy and his Actual Madrid future

Ferland Mendy’s is an odd case. A Actual Madrid starter virtually since his arrival in 2019, there’s a feeling that the membership remains to be evaluating his efficiency with a view to a choice on his future, both to think about renewing him or to place him available on the market.

In regular circumstances, Mendy‘s numbers and performances ought to have already prompted a transfer by the membership to tie down a participant who was undroppable for Zinedine Zidane and is now undroppable for Carlo Ancelotti. There have been contacts, however little extra.

Actual Madrid’s flurry of renewals

It’s stunning that Mendy has been unnoticed of Actual Madrid‘s large renewal plan. In the summertime of 2021 they renewed Luka Modric, Lucas Vazquez, Nacho Fernandez, Dani Carvajal, Thibaut Courtois, Karim Benzema, Fede Valverde and Casemiro.

Final summer time they adopted the identical path with Eder Militao, Vinicius and Rodrygo, three strategic gamers for the longer term undertaking.

Nonetheless, there was no information concerning the French full-back, who finishes his contract in 2025 (like Militao and Rodrygo earlier than renewing).

Doubts about Mendy’s health

It’s no secret that it’s arduous to switch Marcelo, who was a key a part of Actual Madrid’s current success.

There has additionally been discuss his bodily situation. An undisputed starter, Mendy performed 35 video games out of 56 (62 %) final season, 38 out of 52 (73 %) in 2020/21 and 32 out of 51 (63 %) in 2019/20.

That’s three seasons by which he suffered eight accidents that stored him out for 277 days. Significantly worrying was the tibial periostitis that stored him out for 106 days and which the membership adopted with some concern.

Nonetheless, this season he has put his bodily issues behind him and is without doubt one of the few gamers who has not been injured, enjoying 17 of the 21 video games (81 %) and being out there for all matches.

Regardless of his clear high quality, he’s the one participant in Actual Madrid‘s normal beginning XI who doesn’t characteristic recurrently for his nationwide crew and who is not going to be in Qatar, with out counting Toni Kroos, who has retired from worldwide soccer, and David Alaba, whose Austria facet didn’t qualify.

It is actually an odd case, contemplating he’s the beginning left-back for the Spanish and European champions.