🏋️‍♀️ Short pre-season for Madrid? Chelsea and PSG have it even tougher | OneFootball

Real Madrid is undergoing the most atypical preseason of the last decade, with only 15 days available for training and a single friendly match.

The Club World Cup, which the whites bid farewell to on July 9, left little room for preparation.

LALIGA declined the white's proposal to postpone their first match in order not to compromise the rest of their players, and this leaves Xabi Alonso's team in an uncomfortable scenario...although less so than their fellow travelers in the final stages of the World Cup.

🇬🇧 Chelsea, 13 days of training

Enzo Maresca's team, World Cup winners, returned to training on August 4 and will play their first friendly match against Bayer Leverkusen on August 8.

Later they will play their second friendly against Milan on Sunday, August 10 and will debut in the Premier League against Crystal Palace on Sunday, August 17.

This leaves Chelsea with a preseason of just 13 days between returning to training and their official debut.

🇫🇷 Paris Saint‑Germain, even more difficult

Luis Enrique has had to design a preseason of just 7 days before playing the European Super Cup against Tottenham, on August 13.

The team returned to training on August 6, 2025, and had no previous friendly matches after playing the Club World Cup final.

PSG will debut in Ligue 1 on August 17 against Nantes.

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