Real Madrid completes the second movement in the summer market with Trent Alexander-Arnold, a slow cooking operation with those executed in previous seasons. The English side or lane arrives free in terms of transfer price, but the white team has had to pay a liberatory amount of 10 million euros so that it can be in the Club World Cupa tournament considered a priority in Valdebebas. The duration of the contract will be until June 2031.
Strategic signing for Xabi Alonso
Alexander-Arnold is a proven signing, which can exercise as side and lane. It comes from winning the Premier with Liverpool, where it has been a key figure with all the coaches, although the rebellion of the last campaign to guide its signing for Real Madrid has cost more than one confrontation with Arne Slot. As with his hobby, which considers his output to the white team as high treason.
The circumstances in which the signing has occurred have made Liverpool squeeze in the deadlines and points where you could obtain financial compensation. The intention of Real Madrid was clear: to give a defense of guarantees to Xabi Alonso for the Club World Cup, where millionaire premiums have been committed at the height of a Champions League.
Carvajal's long -term decline on the right side compromised Ancelotti aspirations last campaign. Lucas Vázquezwith which Alexander-Arnold will live in the US, he was not able to assume the challenge in the big matches. Now a dichotomy opens between the captain of Leganés and the English, although both would be compatible in A scheme of four or five back, with Carvajal as third central and Alexander-Arnold as a lane.
In -depth passes specialist
Alexander-Arnold will give whites a profile they didn't have until now. English is a modern side, of which he likes to combine inside and with a lot of quality, in addition to a great shot: 27 goals in his career, nine more than Carvajal and with nine years less. But his great virtue, and that appears in most of his highlights It is long displacement, A feature that Real Madrid lost with the departure of Kroos and the Militao injury.
Trent has a glove on his right leg. In the absence of German, English can do its function from the band. It can also act in the center of the field, a position that has already tried in Liverpool and above all, in the English team. The most benefited by this thrust are Vinicius and Mbappé, the two references in attack that this campaign have been more isolated from previous courses. They will have a great ally in English
Compatible or rival of Carvajal?
The weakest point of Alexander-Arnold are its defensive skills, which Real Madrid would compensate in the other band when the signing of Álvaro Carreras is confirmed. The English side is more a lane than a defense, he likes to go up than to go down and suffer from the incoming extremes. In fact, in England he played In the double pivot to take advantage of his ball touch and left a bandmate to hold the rival ends.
Therefore, Carvajal and Alexander-Arnold can coexist perfectly. There are two different lateral ones, which could alternate depending on the opponent and even play at the same time with English in the center of the countryside and the Spanish in band. For Real Madrid, the signing of English is considered strategic and goes in line with the full regeneration of the templatebut, this time, through the weakest line: defense.