Camavinga's big challenge

Eduardo Camavinga is only 18 years old and is a player very much for the future for Real Madrid, but the French midfielder has a great challenge ahead of him and one which a number of players before him have failed.

Toni Kroos, Luka Modric and Casemiro have been mainstays in the Los Blancos starting XI since the halcyon era of Zinedine Zidane's first tenure in charge of the club, but with the trio ageing there have been an urgent need for the club to move forward into a new era in midfield.

Camavinga is seen as the great hope for the position that Dani Ceballos, Martin Odegaard and Marcos Llorente all failed to make their own.

Federico Valverde has briefly made inroads into the team's midfield, but he has lacked the consistency to be a weekly starter.

The French prodigy has a two-fold challenge, to be part of the starting XI in Carlo Ancelotti's mind right now and then to forge a long-term career at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu so that one day we're having the same conversations about replacing him.

In his Stade Rennes career Camavinga showed a degree of comfort at playing just in front of the defenders, and in that position there hasn't been a concrete challenger to Casemiro in years.

Camavinga arrives in the Spanish capital with enthusiasm and incredible physical energy, it's known he can score goals but it's likely that he will be used in a deeper role for now.