Kylian Mbappe and Jude Bellingham impressed Actual Madrid to victory over Barcelona – however not all of their teammates have been celebrating.
The pair each bought on the scoresheet to say a 2-1 win in El Clásico as Xabi Alonso secured the bragging rights within the well-known fixture.
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Bellingham turned the youngest participant to attain and help in a match in opposition to Barcelona within the twenty first century (22 years and 119 days).
In doing so, the England worldwide surpassed the earlier document set by Vinicius Junior (22 years and 267 days) in April 2023.
Paradoxically, that mirrors the present scenario unfolding across the Brazilian amid his continued frustrations at life in Madrid.
Vinicius’ standing as an undisputed starter at Los Blancos has come underneath risk this season, whereas contract talks have stalled.
The 25-year-old, whose present deal runs till June 2027, was benched for Madrid’s Champions League opener in opposition to Marseille.
He was additionally dropped for La Liga fixtures in opposition to Getafe and Oviedo, and had an indignant response to being substituted in opposition to Barcelona.
A mark of his downturn has been that he was named as the second greatest switch market loser after enduring a £26m worth hit.
Throughout an unique interview with talkSPORT.com final month, European soccer broadcaster Andy Brassell shared his doubts over the attacker’s suitability for Alonso’s system.
“I believe the largest query mark actually is over the way forward for Vinicius Junior, who, is within the final two years of his contract now,” he stated.
“Him and the membership are fairly a good distance aside on numbers to the purpose the place they aren’t speaking in the meanwhile. They don’t seem to be speaking when it comes to [his] contract in the meanwhile.”
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Vini Jr contract talks stall with Actual Madrid
In late April, Vinicius was thought to have been near reaching an settlement with the Spanish giants over penning recent phrases.
Nevertheless, contract talks stalled in the summertime, and Saudi dealmakers have been linked with a world document £302m bid for his providers in July.
Final month, talkSPORT soccer journalist Ben Jacobs reaffirmed that the Saudi Ministry of Sport are ready to supply Vinicius Jr a world-record wage to go away Madrid.
Brassell has since raised the query of whether or not Los Blancos’ cashing in on their former talisman truly advantages Mbappe and Bellingham.
“Now, look, it is completely different for Actual Madrid than it’s for different golf equipment as a result of they’re able the place they’re the largest title in world soccer,” he added to talkSPORT.com.
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Promoting Vini Jr advantages Mbappe and Bellingham
“They know they’re the largest title in world soccer, and so they can let different gamers’ contracts run down as a result of they’re by no means going to be held over a barrel by one other membership.
“I imply, they’ll all the time flip round to a participant and go, ‘OK, in case you assume you will get higher than Actual Madrid, go on then.’ And that is tremendous.
“We have seen that with gamers like Xabi Alonso himself, like Mesut Ozil, like Angel Di Maria, run their contracts right down to a degree that for every other membership could be dangerously low.
“However for them, they’ve a better tolerance for brinkmanship due to the title they’re and due to the standing they have in world soccer.
“So I am not writing off Vini Junior’s relationship with Actual Madrid simply but. However I believe there needs to be a query.
“If they don’t seem to be going to promote Rodrigo, and that is nonetheless an if, by the way in which, have they got to promote Vini Junior? And really, does it profit Mbappe and Bellingham? I believe there’s an argument that it does.”
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Alonso speaks out on Vinicius Junior’s strop
Vini Jr was substituted within the 72nd minute and immediately misplaced his head the second he noticed his No.7 on the fourth official’s board.
Sulking all the way in which off the pitch solely to be stonewalled by supervisor Alonso, he marched down the tunnel and disappeared.
Nevertheless, when the full-time whistle blew, he appeared to conflict with Lamine Yamal in spectacular post-match scenes.
Alonso stated: “Vini’s character? There are completely different personalities in any dressing room.
“Proper now we’ll benefit from the win, then we’ll have a dialog, for positive.”



























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