Real Madrid's forward is very strong if Bale and Hazard are not injured. They don't need Mbappe at the moment. But with Varane and Ramos leaving, their defense has become very weak. This gap they will not be able to fill this season. Maybe they have to play defensively, otherwise the strikers have to score a lot of goals.
In my opinion, however, Real Madrid still needs another pure striker to replace Karim Benzema if he is injured or banned from playing, if Real Madrid wants to compete this season, of course, Hazard and Bale are not enough, you can see how Bale game has been inconsistent for two seasons then, so he was loaned last season to tottenham.
I agree with you, that right now Real Madrid need to fix their fragile defense and made a lot of mistakes that led to goals in the match against levante yesterday, it looks like Ramos and Varane left a big hole in the Madrid defence today.
I agree Real Madrid need a back-up from Benzema, because we cannot expect Benzema to continue playing throughout the season. Moreover,
what is available now is only Luka Jovic as a substitute for Benzema which is very far from expectations, because his performance is very bad.
Then the Real Madrid match against Levante showed how fragile the defense from Real Madrid was, because it could concede 3 goals.
This has proven that the loss of Ramos and Varane has had a huge impact on Real Madrid's defence, because it is not enough to expect
the current defender players. Real Madrid in addition to having to buy strikers, and must come at least one more experienced defender.
You have rtazón, now Valverde will contribute all of him for the team, but nevertheless I want to see the classic between Real Madrid and Barcelona, I do not know if I will see it with the same emotion as before without Ronaldo and Messi, but I want to see the game to see how there are those forces from both teams.
On the other hand, I think that Real Madrid and Barcelona should fight the league because I think the Champions League is difficult for me, however Benzema is also of a certain age and performance is beginning to decline, the club must already be clear about it.