Everything has changed at Real Madrid between 2019 and 2024. The change in five years has been astounding. a complete renovation of the team and the stadium, the club's two main cornerstones. The signing of Mbappé completes the club's double reconstruction.

The white club started two projects in May 2019: the new Bernabéu and a new squad. On the 25th of that month, the first project—the stadium—began following over five years of searching for the right project and paperwork to secure the necessary licenses and permits. The second, the sports one, did so six days earlier on the 19th, following the conclusion of an 18-19 season so turbulent that it raised doubts about the generation that produced three consecutive Champions Leagues and gave rise to a transformation that was nonstop and without haste.

They approached the two new plans in the same way: with patience and looking at the long term. In fact, fate is going to be so capricious that not only they started together, but they will also end practically at the same time.

Five years later, the new Bernabéu is almost finished, and Real Madrid will add Mbappé, the final piece of the sporting revolution, during the same time frame. Similar to how the old Bernabéu is essentially gone, so too is the team that ended the 2018-19 campaign; the team is now without Navas, Varane, Marcelo, Llorente, Isco, Asensio, Benzema, Zidane, Bale, Casemiro, Reguilón, Ramos, Mariano, and Odriozola.

As a result, at the same time that the club built the hypogeum, assembled the 360 ??video scoreboard, closed the roof, wrapped itself in its new skin, it has also been opening the door to Ancelotti, Bellingham, Rodrygo, Camavinga, Tchouaméni, Militao, Rüdiger, Alaba, Endrick, Güler.... and Mbappé. If the reconstruction of the stadium has been a masterpiece of modern engineering, that of the team has been a masterpiece of sports planning.

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