He will wear the number 9 shirt, but he is not a true centre forward. Indeed, Kylian Mbappé has done his best with a centre forward alongside him: Giroud, Benzema, Kolo Muani or, going back to his Monaco days, Radamel Falcao.
At Paris Saint-Germain he showed impatience when Christophe Galtier wanted him as a central striker, leaving Neymar and Messi with more freedom of action. The left flank is the ideal area to express his game, to unleash his speed and to move inside and shoot. It’s a shame that in that area of the pitch there is a decisive player, like Vinicius.
Real Madrid spent a year last year without a real centre forward except, on occasion, Joselu. And it is therefore the 4-3-1-2 with which the team won the 15th Champions League that could be the ideal solution for the French champion.. Bellingham behind the strikers, with Mbappé and Vinicius up front but no freedom of movement to allow the Englishman to insert himself. The sacrificed player in the situation is therefore Rodrygo, who could even be the main suspect if there were to be a sacrifice in the transfer market. After all, Endrick will arrive in that area of the pitch in a few days.
Is it possible to see Mbappé on the right wing? It happened, but we have to go back several years: it didn’t go badly, he won a World Cup in 2018 while at Paris Saint-Germain it happened with Neymar on the opposite wing and Cavani up front but in the following years his use in that position only occurred in exceptional cases.