The transfer window is in full swing and Real Madrid has already been active. No less than 4 recruits landed with Dean Huijsen, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Franco Mastanuono and Alvaro Carreras for € 182 million spent. Xabi Alonso has something to be satisfied. The new coach of Casa Blanca would still like a midfielder to complete the panoply, which the management refuses to grant him.
She has others with cats to whip, in particular the sales files of players like Rodrygo, and even though Saudi Arabia tries a new offensive on Vinicius Junior. There is also the question of the extensions of certain frames which will very quickly arrive on the table. After Kroos last year and Modric this year, Thibaut Courtois, David Alaba, Antonio RĂĽdiger and even Dani Carvajal all come to date.
Real is thinking about prolonging Courtois by two years
This is a big puzzle anyway. What to do with them after so many services rendered, titles won while their age is advancing and their performance drops. We can still exclude the Belgian from the latter remark, as he still saved the furniture last season, confirming his status as the best goalkeeper in the world. He is also the one whose file will be the least complicated to settle, despite his 33 years.
He is unanimous in the club and the locker room where his franchise is appreciated when the results are not there. For him, Real could even bypass its one -year extension rule for a player already thirty years old by offering him two more seasons, reveals AS. For others, it's more complex. RĂĽdiger (32) suffers for example from early osteoarthritis with a knee. A sale is not to be excluded this summer, especially towards Saudi Arabia.
The ball is in the camps of others
David Alaba is not in a brilliant situation either. Long injured in a knee in December 2023, he took more than a year to return, before being ruled out again for physical reasons. He will start this season as a 5th central defender in the hierarchy, behind Huijsen, Militao, RĂĽdiger and Asencio. Carvajal was extended by one year in October, when he had just broken the cross ligaments. First captain, after the departure of Modric, he embodies the values of Real but Alexander-Arnold starts logically with a step ahead. His performances will decide.
