The club that created the Galacticos are surprisingly keeping things low profile.
Real Madrid have had a mega summer in the transfer market, signing five big names, including club record €125million Yan Diomande.
It’s hard to contend with Florentino Perez’s previous Galactico windows, but you’d still expect some fanfare.
His last in 2009 saw Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka, Karim Benzema and Xabi Alonso take part in live presentations at the Bernabeu.
However, this time the players won’t even be presented to the public.
Real Madrid to stage private player presentations
El Mundo Deportivo report that the players will still get their obligatory photo with Perez, but not in front of the media as has been customary.
Diomande, Marc Cucurella, Ibrahima Konate, Denzel Dumfries, Carlos Espí, and Bernardo Silva will instead have private events with their family and friends present.
New coach Jose Mourinho will also have his own ceremony.
The festivities will take place at some point this week before the LaLiga season opener away at Espanyol on August 22nd.
All of the new signings have now debuted for Madrid, and Mourinho, for one, is happy.
Mourinho happy with his new signings
Speaking after the most recent friendly win over Schalke, he said: “At this moment, it’s difficult to talk about individual players, because we’re growing as a team.
“We only have good, very good, and extremely good players here.
“From the combined efforts of these players, we have to create a very good team. I think we’re taking the right steps to do so.
“I’m very happy with the latest arrivals. It’s not easy to get into a high-intensity environment, with double sessions morning and afternoon, incredible heat, and they arrived with a top-notch mentality.
“The issue of 45 minutes for Kylian (Mbappé), for Konaté, 30 for Jude (Bellingham), Cucurella, Diomande – these are things we analysed scientifically with the data we have and with the players’ own experience and knowledge of their bodies. We’ve arrived in very acceptable condition for this point in the season.”
He added on the 3-0 win: “It was positive for the team, positive for each player.
“There are players who arrived later and don’t yet have the same intensity as those who started on the first day.
“Those who started on the first day have had 30 training sessions and six matches, while those who arrived now have had three or four.
“There’s a difference in pace, but tactically the ideas are gradually taking shape.
“The players are of incredible quality. They’re working very well as a team, with and without the ball.
“It was a very good test, a very good final training session before the real work begins, which is competing for real, fighting for points. That’s what we like.
“We’re all here. The players are excited. If they weren’t, we’d have a problem. They’re showing they are.
“Small details make a big difference: people who were supposed to show up one day are arriving early, those who are arriving on the last day have prepared very well individually. We’re playing as a team; there’s empathy and teamwork. The team is starting to look like a team.”
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