Miguel overtakes everyone

Making his way as a left back at Real Madrid is one of the most difficult climbs in the last twenty years for Roberto Carlos and Marcelo, but the castillista Miguel Gutierrez (19 years) is in a position to establish itself as three in the first team. His brilliant debut as a starter in Granada, with assistance a la Laudrup in Modric's 0-1, further strengthened the plans for him. As reported by AS, the idea of ​​Madrid is to be the immediate replacement for Marcelo after a year in which has swept the options of your competition direct: Reguilón and Fran García, who are out but could return if the white entity so wishes …

Madrid wants, for economic and sporting reasons, parting ways with Marcelo and Miguel Gutiérrez appears as an ideal excuse. The squad from Getafe has lived a season in which he started in the summer as a fourth winger in the hierarchy of the first team when Reguilón temporarily returned from his assignment at Sevilla and may end it, perhaps, winning the League as the starter of Real Madrid. Their numbers, as can be seen in the graph below, do not detract from the two of Marcelo and Mendy in averages for 90 minutes played.

In Valdebebas there was no doubt how Gutiérrez was going to perform as soon as he had a chance, but he only needed one play to present himself to the world. An assist “That pass from Miguel defines him, because he has a lot of imagination in the area and self-confidence”, explained Álvaro Benito in Sports Carousel. “He has seen the play and then he has executed it.” Compliments that have been cascading Miguel down for a long time. Also winks from outside. First when I was a Youth (Manchester United tried to tempt him with an offer) and the last two markets from a good handful of Premier clubs and also again from England. Madrid and especially Raúl opposed his departure. Now the entity collects the dividends of that decision.

Gone are Reguilón and Fran García …

Miguel's competition has not been easy. On the one hand, there is another well-known candidate in Factory, which has been fired in Second on loan at Rayo Vallecano and which would also come out at zero cost. It is Fran garcia (21 years). “Madrid sees me,” the side himself confessed to this newspaper in October. In Vallecas he has been master and lord of the left-back (34 games as a starter, one goal) but his performance has gone from more to less and his team has not accompanied him either. There is another alternative that remains in the white deck, the Reguilón letter. It is the most unlikely, especially if Zidane continues. But the economic question is really the definitive key in not thinking for the moment about buying it back from Tottenham: Madrid would have to pay 40 million euros. Money that the club needs decisively to go after big names like Mbappé and Haaland. With Mendy and Miguel Gutiérrez, Madrid looks well covered. Whether Zidane continues … or if Raúl, a lover of Miguel's football, takes the lead.