Real Madrid is changing the gears and key engines of Factory White. The Valdebebas quarry has undergone a profound change for a year, with Manu Fernandez as the maximum responsible. From his hand, The club has closed the incorporation of two heads of the Getafe quarry, Carlos Guerrero and a direct advisor very involved in the Azulona quarry since the beginning of this season. The two join the hard core that Manu Fernández (son of the historic club treasurer Manuel Fernández Trigo) forms with his right hand since the end of last season, the canary Abian Perdomo, responsible of Training and Methodology. In less than a year, four of the top five leadership positions in the Madrid youth academy have changed hands. A total upheaval of the old model towards a new in a quarry that wants to maintain national and international prominence, with that last Youth League with Raúl as the great jewel in the crown. Planning for the next five years is accelerating.
The interest of the Concha Espina club in the working method of Carlos Guerrero (a deep connoisseur of the lower categories in Madrid) in Getafe, where he has been for two decades, comes from quite far. They wanted it in 2016 as AS reported at the time when a first reconstruction of the quarry began, although it finally did not arrive. Guerrero maintains a very good personal relationship with Manu Fernández and his incorporation has been managed since the end of last year.
Abian Perdomo is since mid-2020 the right hand of the number one of the Madrid quarry, Manu Fernández.
Of the workers already on the payroll, the equation continues for now David fernandez, coordinator of recruiters, signed in 2017 from Espanyol. The question is what will happen to Alfredo Merino, one of the survivors of the Ramón Martínez era as the club's chief scout and whose continuity remains very much in the air.. The twist could be total.
Arbeloa and new signings
While shaping the pyramid of power in the quarry, the club continues to plan the list of coaches and signings for the next season for the Valdebebas teams. On the benches is thinking about how to give one of the Youth to Álvaro Arbeloa, who has made his debut this season guiding the Infantil A. Internal promotion tends to accelerate when it comes to renowned ex-footballers, with the fresh card but with experience at the highest recent level. It was made with Raul, it was tried with Xabi Alonso (which he left after a season Factory to go to the Real Sociedad subsidiary where he is succeeding) and now the intention is to replicate it with the former Madrid player.
Álvaro Arbeloa made his debut this season as a coach in charge of Infantil A and the club wants to promote him this summer.
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As for reinforcements, he is in the process of testing several interesting players in the Madrid sports city, but he has already closed the arrivals of David Muñoz, a winger who will go to the Juvenil blanco after beating Barcelona, the cadet Mayan saints, from Nuevo Boadilla (17 years old) for Juvenil C, and also incorporations such as Adam Essid Y Alejandro Valenzuela, Benjamines from Colegio Miramadrid.