The 2026-27 La Liga season will be a week later than normal due to the World Cup, but there is still not enough time left for clubs, especially those with many international players.

Even if Li Mudi had already set up a pre-season training camp in advance according to his habit before the group stage of this grand event was finished, it was obviously impossible for several new signings to find a tacit understanding with their new teammates at the beginning of the new season.

Although the Real Madrid manager's plug-in can significantly shorten the time for players to run-in, enhance players' tactical understanding, and speed up the integration of new signings into the team, this is not a game after all, and everything is good to go by clicking the corresponding button in the modifier, and it still takes some time to reach the level of approval of the coaching staff.

Therefore, in order to achieve the goal of accumulating a collective with good fighting power as soon as possible, Real Madrid chose to ignore the victory and defeat in many warm-up games this summer, and instead allowed a large number of young players and new signings to get enough playing time, hoping that they could find a sense of cooperation through various mistakes in the game. As a result, the superteam that had just created the treble had struggled in the first few games of pre-season, losing to Borussia Mönchengladbach and Atalanta, only to draw with Leicester City and finally win against the weakest Norwegian side Rosenborg.

However, this method of training by game still had some effect, and when this year's Bernabeu Cup was played in Madrid, people still saw the improvement of the Galaxy Battleship, which had undergone a big change in the lineup.

In order to pay tribute and thank the departed players, this year's Bernabeu Cup was temporarily changed to a small cup format, and Varane's Ligue 1 side Lille, Courtois's Serie A giants Roma and last year's Super League champion Qilu Luneng were invited.

As a result, Real Madrid first beat Lille 2-0 in the semi-finals, and then beat the Red Wolves by a narrow goal in the final, winning the cup without conceding a goal, which is a good sign for the new season.

On August 10 and 16, Li Muddy led the team to win Sevilla and Inter Milan respectively, and brought the Spanish Super Cup and the European Super Cup, two barely trivial championship trophies, back to the club's trophy showroom, and it is only one step away from replicating the miracle of the six crowns achieved by Barcelona at the end of the year.

Judging from the last four games, the updated lineup of the Galaxy Battleship on the defensive end is still worthy of praise, especially the new signing Jose Martinez, who quickly won the recognition of the coaching staff with his excellent sense of judgment and is expected to get a relatively main position (that is, the kind that will get more playing time under the rotation system).

Benoit Bediachal, on the other hand, needed more time to find a sense of fitting into his new surroundings, but his unbeatable header ability also won the hearts of the fans, both defensively and from set-pieces, the Frenchman was the player with the highest success rate in headers, which gave Real Madrid, who were not outstanding in this ability in the past, a new advantage, and could be the key point of turning the tide at some point.

The integration of these two new signings is still very fast, in addition to their strong strength and the help of several other veterans in the team, and it has a lot to do with the lack of tactical requirements at the back. However, for players with offensive tasks, dozens of new combinations are the way to prevent them from finding a new environment as soon as possible, which has also led to a major problem in Real Madrid's attacking firepower after only two adjustments to the configuration of the central midfield.

According to Li Mudi's previous design, Vinicius and Herabert are not enough to take over the main position left by Asensio, so the new signing Ferran Torres will be transferred from the right side of his original main role in Valencia to the left side, and form a new wing-wing combination with Mbappe.

Torres, who was known as Asensio II when he was young, is indeed very similar to the template that the outside world found for him in terms of technical characteristics, excellent dribbling and extremely sharp shots after cutting inside, as if he was carved out of the same mold as Ah Xiao. Of course, he is slightly inferior to his predecessors in terms of passing and overall vision, but he is better in terms of physicality and toughness of his style of play, and in general he should be able to perfectly replace the position of Real Madrid's former homegrown leader.

And in terms of current ability and potential value, the double value of 172 and 179 is not much worse than Asensio, as long as the remaining 7 points can be completed, although it is a little difficult at his age of 26, but Li Mudi has it in hand, and the probability of finally achieving this goal is still quite high, almost so that the Galaxy Battleship will no longer have to worry about the position of the two wingers in the next four or five years.

However, the Real Madrid boss now faces a somewhat tricky problem, and that is that after Ferran Torres was dropped down the left, he was left with a threatening attacking style of cutting in, and his left foot dribbled the ball well, but the quality of his crosses was really not flattering. This lame ability will not only make his killer skills less powerful by more targeted defences, but will also not be able to bring out Pellegri's excellent finishing ability in front of goal, so the coaching staff will focus on improving the new signing's crosses at the start of the season, regardless of the method used, but the results of the pre-season warm-up games have not been particularly ideal.

As for Li Mudi's super training package, it was used by him to strengthen Torres' speed and dribbling direction first, because these two are the most commonly used weapons in Real Madrid's attack, so the matter of crosses can only be put aside first.

The team's other three wingers, Mbappe, Herabert and Vinicius, can also move to the left side, especially the Brazilians still play on this side, but they are also right-footed, and the tactical style when playing left winger will also choose to cut inward, and the reverse foot is not as light as Torres. Therefore, the coaching staff can only choose to "be ruthless" to the latter, all kinds of crazy training, hoping to solve this problem as soon as possible, but it is obviously impossible to do it overnight.

Therefore, in the case that the attack on the left side has not been able to play the desired effect, the re-five-time champion Real Madrid, in the first two months of the new season, encountered rare symptoms of offensive weakness, which many people did not expect. Because even if Torres is not able to replace Asensio 100% for the time being, the team still has top attackers such as Mbappe, Pellegri and Rodrygo, and the ability to score goals should still be guaranteed.

However, the reality is that Real Madrid have only scored three goals in their two league games in August, and neither Alaves nor Celta Vigo are the kind of teams known for their defensive prowess. Fortunately, the back line of the Galaxy Battleship is still very powerful, especially the four central defenders Vallejo, Martinez, Bediachal and Skriniar, who have been given the opportunity to play, in the case of frequent forward assists by the fullbacks, almost perfectly blocked all the counterattacks of the two opponents, so that teammates do not need to be distracted to return to the problem of defense, and can devote all their energy to how to knock on the opponent's goal, which is one of the biggest contributors to Real Madrid's winning streak.

It's just that after getting used to the super offensive firepower that has been in an invincible state for the past two seasons, the Melingers are still a little disappointed with the current situation. Of course, anyone who knows a little bit about the laws of football can understand that after the lineup changes, it is normal for the team to have all kinds of problems, and the so-called seamless connection is unattainable.

But to everyone's dissatisfaction, in order to allow several new signings to gain experience in the game, Li Mudi almost abandoned the Castillan Three Musketeers, who have a high level of support among the fan group. In the first two games, with the exception of centre-forward Jorge Solsano who played 17 minutes, the other two youngsters, including Zori, the best newcomer in La Liga last season, were only able to watch their team-mates fight on the pitch from the bench or in the stands, which seemed to be a huge disservice to the future of the team.

Regarding this kind of questioning, Li Mudi also said helplessly in an interview with reporters that the main reason for this is that the World Cup schedule for this year's expansion to 48 participating teams is much longer than in previous years, resulting in insufficient run-in time for the team before the season, so Real Madrid can only seek solutions through this unconventional way.

And he also believes that the blame for the team's decline in attacking power is not entirely the responsibility of the two new signings, Ferran Torres and Martin Calderón, and the poor form of the other players in the team cannot be ignored. As the club with the largest number of players in the World Cup, the Galaxy's major tournament syndrome is the most serious in the entire football world, and the only way to make positive adjustments is through training and games, and the rest is only to wait for the return of normal feelings.

However, reality soon proved that Real Madrid were far from being able to get out of the quagmire, and on 2 September, they were hit head-on when they travelled to Old Trafford to defend their first Champions League title of the season.

Under Zinedine Zinedine's leadership, Manchester United showed a strong recovery momentum after last year's winter break, and finally went all the way to the third place in the Premier League, which also officially announced the return of the Red Devils. After a very targeted reinforcement in the summer window, the former Real Madrid legend led the team to a strong performance in August, and was considered by the media to be another big favorite to shake the position of Liverpool and Manchester City in the top two.

Manchester United, which urgently needs to further improve the confidence and momentum of its own team, naturally showed 120% concentration and vowed to step on the corpse of the old king and make a bold statement that the new king should stand.

And the process of this strong matchup, which is like Mars hitting the earth, also proves the Real Madrid coach's previous assertion that the reason for their unsatisfactory performance really cannot be attributed to the new signings. Knowing that the opponent will definitely adopt a very pressing style of play at home, Li Mudi was very careful not to let Ferran Torres start, and copied the old lineup that had been honed very pure last season, hoping to get some good opportunities on the counterattack.

It's just that at the critical moment, Mbappe was dumbfounded, and he fell into the encirclement designed for him by the home team many times and couldn't extricate himself. As for the starting left winger, Vinicius Jr. sleepwalked on the field for 50 minutes, and it seemed that he had bought a ticket to watch the game up close in the field, so angry that Li Muddy replaced him with Herabert early. However, the Spaniard's form today was also mediocre, and just before the break, Pellegri squandered a hard-fought chance to blast a superb goal less than 10 metres from goal off the crossbar.

In the end, the front field was sluggish, and although the midfield and backfield played well, they could not completely resist Manchester United's attack, and in the first Champions League group stage of the new season, they reaped their first defeat, and fell to Manchester United led by the former coach with a score of 0-2, which can be said to be exhaustive.

And four days later, when they returned home with a 2-1 win at the Mestalla, comments that the myth of the five crowns had collapsed began to spread across European football.

The defeat not only ended Real Madrid's unbeaten run of 45 league games across three seasons, but also made the rest of the team see where their Achilles' heel is, and everyone is more convinced that the peak will usher in the trough of the eternal truth in football history.

Fortunately, in the face of criticism from the outside world and all kinds of reliable and unreliable suggestions, Li Mudi's heart is not chaotic, he is very aware of the ability of his group of players, as long as he can adjust the state back, then even if he can't replicate the miracle of last season's Buddha blocking and killing Buddha and demon, this galaxy battleship will be the strongest contender for the championship of all events.

After careful study with the coaching staff, he believes that the strategy adopted by the team is no problem in the general direction, but there are some small details that need to be improved. As long as we can persevere, sooner or later we will usher in a day of full recovery.

But the man in charge obviously didn't want this year's football to become boring, so he inserted the international break after the first week of September, so that Real Madrid's players had to go to their respective national teams to report, disrupting the plans of Li Mudi and others, making them angry and helpless.