He's starting to look back to his best alongside new centre-back partner Lisandro Martinez. He left for a new challenge in 2021 but suffered issues with form and fitness at a struggling Manchester United side. Varane ended up making 360 appearances for the club and won four Champions Leagues, starting three finals alongside Sergio Ramos, between 20. He is still young, but I think he's the best,” Mourinho later said, a year after leaving the Bernabeu, in 2014. “I think Varane is the best central defender in the world. He featured on the periphery of Los Blancos' record-breaking 100-point La Liga campaign in 2011-12 before gradually becoming more integrated into the first-team picture. The French defender arrived as an 18-year-old from Lens in the summer of 2011. We've taken a look at how things have worked out for the quintet in real life.
They boasted one of the most highly-rated centre-backs in world football and a new batch of promising kids from their famous La Fabrica academy.įM 2013 tipped five Real Madrid 'wonderkids' to have exciting futures.
They suffered an underwhelming title defence in 2012-13 and ended up falling quite a distance behind Tito Vilanova's reinvigorated side.īut the future of the club was looking bright. They'd knocked Barcelona off their perch and sent Pep Guardiola packing, but their grip at the summit of La Liga was slipping. When Football Manager 2013 was released in November 2012, Jose Mourinho's Real Madrid were the reigning champions of Spain.
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