“”Bournemouth can confirm that defender Dean Huijsen will join Real Madrid after the conclusion of the 2024/25 season, the Spanish team having activated a liberating clause of 50 million pounds sterling». Last Saturday, Bourmemouth formalized one of the most beautiful blows of the 2025 summer transfer window. At only 20 years old and after a short season in the Premier League (3 goals, 1 decisive pass in 31 championship matches), Dean Huijse arrives at Real Madrid. A recruit of choice for Merengues so often handicapped by a defense to the abesses and especially decimated this season. Proof of this is: Dani Carvajal barely returns from a knee injury, Eder Militão is hoped for the Club World Cup while David Alaba and Antonio Rüdiger will not be available before next season. With Huijsen, Casa Blanca has offered itself a talented and young reinforcement, which may form with Raul Asencio the future central hinge of Real Madrid.
One thing is certain: Dean Huijsen now measures the impact of his arrival in the Spanish capital. Its number of subscribers on social networks has exploded … and criticism arrives faster too. Harder for his successful season in England and his lecturers with Spain against the Netherlands (2 selections), Huijsen learned at his expense that nothing will be spared him. Because in Madrid, he will quickly have to meet the requirements of a well determined club to forget this 2024/2025 virgin season of any major trophy except the European Super Cup gleaned during the summer of 2024. Yesterday, his difficult performance against Manchester City (3-1 defeat during the 37th day) therefore escaped anyone.
Huijsen is now closely scrutinized
The Catalan press did not fail to point the finger at it. “First Madridist disappointment for Huijsen. The central Hispano-Dutch defender is the subject of all the attention, in particular in the capital, where he is expected as the Savior of all the defensive ills that have struck the whites this season. Erling Haaland and the Manchester City game leaders have constantly put it out of its position. All this had an influence on the performance of Huijsen, which was more anxious and less enthusiastic than usual: imprecise in its reminders, keeping leather longer than the game required it ”writing Sport Who did not fail to specify that Huijsen was also involved in the opening of the Mancunian score. Some will say that the Catalans are bad players, but it should be indicated that the performance of the young defender has also been talked about in the columns of the Madrid press.
“Huijsen suffers with City. The central defender did not make a good match in the victory of City, just three days after the confirmation of his transfer to Real Madrid. His error led to the goal of Bernardo Silva. It is said that “when a player has his head elsewhere, it is that he is already gone”. This is the case of Dean Huijsen against Manchester City. Three days after announcing his departure for Real Madrid, the central defender knew one of his most difficult matches in the jersey of Bournemouth. Huijsen, like the entire Iraola team, was outclasssed by a city team ”can we read on AS. “Dean Huijsen played his first match with Bournemouth after the formalization of his transfer to Real Madrid. And the day was not easy, with a very bad match for his team (3-1), who weighed down the central defender of Malaga ”underlines Marca For its part. Dean Huijsen will undoubtedly have the opportunity to demonstrate that this match against City was only annecdotal, but the native of Amsterdam could see that he entered another dimension.
