Disappointing season for Real Madrid. If there have been coronations in European Supercup and in intercontinental cup earlier in this exercise 2024/2025, the Merengues have already said goodbye to the Champions League, lost the final of Copa del Rey and are four points from Barça in the Liga classification. Suffice to say that it smells like the white season – if we take into account major titles – which is unacceptable for a club of such a dimension and with such ambitions, even more after the arrival of Kylian Mbappé last summer …
And management knows that the club can slightly catch up at the end of the season, with a small consolation batch: the club World Cup, the new competition organized by FIFA which could in addition report big at the accounts of the Madrid stable. The winner of this new tournament will pocket approximately 115 million euros, on which the club of the Spanish capital will logically not spit. But it is, above all, a question of image and reputation. The Merengues are working to reach this competition in the best possible conditions.
A recruit at 45 million euros
Everything first indicates that Carlo Ancelotti will no longer be there, and that a new coach will therefore be on the sidelines to replace the one who will engage with Brazil. But it will not be Xabi Alonso, the favorite of the management to replace the Italian, but Santiago Solari as confirmed again AS This Tuesday. Former player, club leader and already passed through the bench of the first team, the Argentinian should thus insure the interim and lead the team for this tournament before entrusting the keys to the truck in the leverkusen coach. Real Madrid does not want Xabi Alonso – or the new coach whatever it is – arrives in Madrid in disaster just before this CDM clubs, without being able to prepare it and with the risk of starting its adventure on a bad experience.
And that's not all since Solari wants Real Madrid to be able to count on a new player for this club world. In addition to Trent Alexander -Arnold – the negotiations would be underway with Liverpool so that the Reds release him earlier – the Argentinian coach wants to recruit Franco Mastantuono and align him in this tournament. The Madrid interest in the 17 -year attacking midfielder of River Plate is not new, but the will of the Merengues to bring it coming so quickly and so precipitated was so far unknown. The fact remains that it will be necessary to put on the table the 45 million euros of his release clause claimed by River Plate … For his part, the player could land in Madrid even by being a minor since he also has Italian nationality.
