Tuesday evening at 7 p.m., Real Madrid will play its first and last summer preparation match against Tirol in Austria. A meeting which will therefore allow Xabi Alonso to settle last details before the start of his team in Liga, Tuesday August 19 against Osasuna. With a fairly short preparation, the fault at the World Cup, the Basque coach works against the watch, while many files shake the club behind the scenes.
There is bound to be the Vinicius Jr case, with this extension that is long overdue. The Brazilian has returned from his very fit vacation and knows that he will have to do better to convince management to offer him an upward wages, even if his wish to earn more than Kylian Mbappé will not be a priori fulfilled. Departures are also expected, like that of David Alaba, while in the sense of arrivals, the end of the summer market should be calm since Florentino Pérez believes that the workforce is of sufficient level like that.
An already decimated environment
And we can say, Xabi Alonso had to face a few galleys during this summer preparation. The absence of new recruits to start, while the former player was waiting at least one reinforcement in the middle. Then, physical seeds. First, the absence of Jude Bellingham, which will be a centerpiece of the team. Operated of the shoulder, English will not be available before, in the best of cases, mid-October. This weekend, the Basque coach saw how he also lost Eduardo Camavonga, victim of an ankle sprain and therefore ex officio absent for the kick-off of the Liga in 8 days.
With the departure of Luka Modric who was not covered, the former from Leverkusen is already faced with a problem in the middle. Before even starting the season, Alonso must therefore already deal with several absences in a key sector. An already very present trend in Real Madrid in recent years, where his predecessors have often had to tinker because of recurring physical seeds. Brahim Diaz or Dani Ceballos could therefore already have a great opportunity to show up.
