AS<\/a>“, the 23-year-old, who suffered from missing out on the World Cup because of a modest season, worked all summer to reach pre-season in the best possible condition. His 90 minutes against Fiorentina, plus more than two hours against Alcorc\u00f3n and Legan\u00e9s, showed that he has not yet left an impactful mark.<\/p>\nHaving started the first two friendlies at the Di St\u00e9fano stadium, he returned to the XI against Fiorentina. A shortage of first-team players at this stage of pre-season handed him a golden chance to prove his worth to coach Jos\u00e9 Mourinho, but he has not yet taken it.<\/p>\n
Camavinga did supply the decisive pass for Real Madrid’s first goal against Fiorentina. Even so, he looked nervous, distracted and unsure of himself against the Italian side.<\/p>\n
A failed attempt to control the ball also spread widely on social media. Real Madrid have only just begun their pre-season, though, so the Frenchman will have other chances to prove himself.<\/p>\n
The worst news heading Camavinga’s way, if not the worst of all, does not concern him personally but his team-mates. From this week, the players who reached the latter stages of the World Cup will gradually return to the Merengues, and some of them are midfielders with a fiercely competitive streak.<\/p>\n
Portugal’s Bernardo Silva was the first to arrive. The new signing underwent a medical yesterday, Monday, then trained under the supervision of his compatriot Mourinho.<\/p>\n
Bernardo Silva usually plays on the right wing, yet he can also operate in a central role within a double pivot, the very position Camavinga currently occupies.<\/p>\n
Next up after Bernardo is Aur\u00e9lien Tchouam\u00e9ni, who is expected to start in Real Madrid’s line-up.<\/p>\n
With these signings, Mourinho will be able to call on all his midfield players, while awaiting the potential arrival of Rodri.<\/p>\n
Should the Manchester City player join, Camavinga’s future could change dramatically. The Spaniard’s arrival would be a major setback for the Frenchman, and might even push him to end his time at Real Madrid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Throughout history, there have been players who did not give their best during a particular season, then transformed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23952,4379,24371,1414,82,83,24372,1102,265],"class_list":["post-65942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-madrid","tag-club-friendlies","tag-e-camavinga","tag-fiorentina","tag-j-mourinho","tag-madrid","tag-real-madrid","tag-real-madrid-vs-fiorentina","tag-rodri","tag-transfers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}