{"id":457225,"date":"2019-06-12T17:08:26","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T21:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=457225"},"modified":"2019-06-12T17:09:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T21:09:05","slug":"ferland-mendy-real-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2019\/06\/12\/ferland-mendy-real-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferland Mendy Completes Real Madrid Transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/real-madrid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Real Madrid<\/a> have signed <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/3cefcaef\/Ferland-Mendy?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ferland Mendy<\/a> from Lyon on a six-year deal, the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realmadriden\/status\/1138876956651458560\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">club have confirmed<\/a>. The French defender has completed a \u00a347million transfer to the Spanish giants.<\/p>\n<h1>Real Madrid Sign <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/3cefcaef\/Ferland-Mendy?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ferland Mendy<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WelcomeMendy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WelcomeMendy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HdXyDLS4hd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/HdXyDLS4hd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Real Madrid C.F. ???? (@realmadriden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realmadriden\/status\/1138876956651458560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 12, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Ferland Mendy Signs in Summer of Transformation<\/h2>\n<p>Mendy joined Lyon in 2017 and has made 79 appearances for the Ligue 1 side throughout two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Mendy, previously on the books at <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/paris-saint-germain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paris Saint-Germain<\/a> as a youngster, made 40 appearances in all competitions last term.<\/p>\n<p>The former Le Havre defender played in France&#8217;s two European Qualifiers last week.<\/p>\n<p>Mendy will be presented at the Santiago Bernabeu for the first time next Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Ferland Mendy, previously hailed as similar to Marcelo, was recently heavily praised.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mendy is the French Marcelo when he joins the attack&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/iusport.com\/art\/87720\/ferland-mendy-el-nuevo-marcelo-que-deseaba-media-europa\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said Yvan Le Mee<\/a>, Mendy&#8217;s agent, according to Spanish outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/iusport.com\/art\/87720\/ferland-mendy-el-nuevo-marcelo-que-deseaba-media-europa\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iusport<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mendy is more complete than <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=c3ee18ef,bb45af62&amp;search=Lucas+Hern\u00e1ndez&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lucas Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a>, and he has just gone to Munich for 80 million. With only 23 years old, Ferland is at the epicentre of the market, half of Europe wants to sign him!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is good offensively and defensively, and that&#8217;s very rare, balanced guys, with energy to play forward and strength to cover their backs are very uncommon, at their age, there&#8217;s no one better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Mass Spending Continues<\/h2>\n<p>After a disappointing season in which Real finished third in La Liga, boss Zinedine Zidane has highlighted a number of areas of improvement.<\/p>\n<p>In a mass transformation by Zidane, 24-year-old Mendy has become the latest addition to Real Madrid; the defender joins <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/a39bb753\/Eden-Hazard?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eden Hazard<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/4d8cd038\/Luka-Jovic?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luka Jovic<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/2784f898\/Eder-Militao?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eder Militao<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/8f5e92a6\/Rodrygo-Goes\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rodrygo Goes<\/a> in the Spanish capital.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/feeds\/items\/report-eden-hazard-completes-move-to-real-madrid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hazard agreed a five-year contract<\/a> with Madrid after scoring 110 goals in 352 appearances for <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/chelsea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chelsea<\/a>. The Belgian international&#8217;s move from Stamford Bridge could exceed \u00a3150 million.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Serbia striker <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/06\/04\/luka-jovic-completes-move-to-real-madrid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jovic is set to move<\/a> from Eintracht Frankfurt to Madrid for a reported \u00a353million.<\/p>\n<p>Porto defender Eder Militao was added in March for \u00a342.7 million; meanwhile, 18-year-old Brazillian forward Rodrygo signed from Santos for \u00a340 million.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <a id=\"Kv9wUFuoT419Bq4LBxj5YA\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1148932591\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'Kv9wUFuoT419Bq4LBxj5YA',sig:'HBYW2Mu9GRbLzaEx4VXa2XkHDUW8H3smQfc4Imf3LhQ=',w:'594px',h:'385px',items:'1148932591',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid have signed Ferland Mendy from Lyon on a six-year deal, the club have confirmed. The French defender has completed a \u00a347million transfer to the Spanish giants. Real Madrid Sign Ferland Mendy &nbsp; ? #WelcomeMendy pic.twitter.com\/HdXyDLS4hd \u2014 Real Madrid C.F. ???? (@realmadriden) June 12, 2019 Ferland Mendy Signs in Summer of Transformation Mendy joined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3040,"featured_media":457285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1366,7,30,28],"tags":[3068,142,122,976,182,136,331],"class_list":["post-457225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-madrid","category-ligue-1","category-news","category-transfers","tag-ferland-mendy","tag-la-liga","tag-ligue-1","tag-lyon","tag-real-madrid","tag-world-football","tag-zinedine-zidane"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}