Coaching BBCM will be even more difficult for Zidane

Posted Wednesday, July 26, 2017 by Marca.com

The potential arrival of Kylian Mbappe at Real Madrid, which is beginning to look more likely, would create a big but welcome headache for Zinedine Zidane.

He is in charge of keeping a squad packed full of superstar talents happy and has so far managed to do an excellent job of it.

However, the big question now being asked by Real fans and many of the club's staff is how will Zidane manage a team with Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema, Gareth Bale and Mbappe in attack?

The problem isn't so much the 4-3-3 system which would require one of the attackers to be dropped, but rather what you do with players like Isco, who truly proved himself to be among the elite last season, or Marco Asensio, who the club have very high hopes for.

Those players would find opportunities even more limited and that's without mentioning players like Dani Ceballos, Lucas Vazquez and Mateo Kovacic.

At the beginning of the summer, Zidane outlined his condition for the arrival of Mbappe and that is was that one of the current BBC trio would have to be sold.All signs pointed towards that man being Bale, with whom the Frenchman has a great relationship but who has suffered recently from injury problems.

However, the winger does not want to leave and the club do not seem keen on the prospect of allowing him to move on so the first option is to convince Zidane that he is the man to oversee the best squad in the club's history.

He had similar issues last season with players like Alvaro Morata and James Rodriguez and it is a scenario which would be even more difficult in the year ahead with Mbappe at the club.

That is because the Spaniard would be replaced by a player who would become the most expensive footballer ever and joining for 180 million euros means he is coming to the Spanish capital to play.

The Colombian would effectively be replaced in that regard by Ceballos, a man who may have to show a little more patience in waiting for his opportunity this season.

Thar's without mentioning regular midfield starters Luka Madrid and Toni Kroos.

It truly is an embarrassment of riches that Real will have at their disposal.