"Uff." If it's possible to sigh and smile at the same time, that's what Girona coach Michel did. ESPN just asked the manager who pushed Real Madrid closest in last season's LaLiga title race how his team will cope now that Madrid have signed arguably the best forward on the planet, Kylian Mbappé. (They open their 2024-25 season at Mallorca: Watch it Sunday, 3 p.m. ET, ESPN+ in the U.S.)
His reaction doesn't suggest sleepless nights spent devising how to stop him, exactly, but it does express a kind of resignation.