Kubo: Madrid have already canceled the loan of Vallejo and Lunin

Last season there were two examples of how has Real Madrid decided to proceed when their loans are not doing as expected. Both Lunin and Vallejo, With hardly any minutes, they saw their respective assignments interrupted in the middle of the course and ended up in another team in which they did enjoy opportunities. And both cases are currently in the Valdebebas offices now in case repeat the formula this Christmas with Kubo, 54 minutes in five days.

Madrid's perspective in this chapter is not based on the fact that the teams to which it yields its players go well or that its players are indisputable, but rather that they are given enough options. And without injuries, his cross in Madrid, Vallejo at Wolverhampton was hardly taken into account. He played 612 minutes in seven games, three of them in August seeking qualification for the Europa League, and stayed to zero since October 30. At the end of January he landed in the Granada, with whom he played 881 minutes in 14 games, nine as a starter. And with that status he has started this 2020-21 on loan in the Nuevo Los Cármenes.

With Lunin, curiously Kubo's best friend in Madrid, something similar happened. For the Ukrainian there was the aggravation that in his first assignment, to Leganés in 2018-19, he had played only seven games. In Valladolid in 2019-20 it was even worse: only two participations, both in Copa and already in December and January. Therefore he set course for Oviedo, where he played the 20 rounds remaining of Second. In the Tartiere he improved the data of Areola, then second Madrid goalkeeper, and became key to salvation, with 75% parries.

Kubo averages, to date, about 11 minutes per game at Villarreal. He has never been a starter and his maximum record is 16 minutes, at the Camp Nou. In Madrid they have not liked these statistics at all, but they still advocate calm. Until December, with the Europa League and the Cup to enter the scene, there is time. And if not, a known solution.