Praise if he does not renew Ramos

David Alaba, a 28-year-old versatile Austrian defender, has gone from being rejected by Madrid after being offered a couple of times to being booked later because he was ending his contract. Now, it directly becomes a target. Praise is Plan B if things go wrong with the renewal of Ramos. A position of strength, in reality, for Real Madrid, in the future negotiation for the renewal of its captain after, as AS revealed, the positions have distanced and stalled. Ramos still wants two years and a salary increase and Madrid only give him one without increase … To make matters worse, the defender has received an offer from PSG in which he would win 60 million net in three seasons.

That is where the figure of Alaba appears, who has demonstrated solvency at the highest level in the position of center back and also of right back. The Austrian, anyway, it will in no way fill the void that Ramos would leave on the pitch and in the dressing room, but it is Madrid's choice (apart from signing another central defender) if Ramos left Madrid because there was no agreement before next summer, when the camero ends his contract.

Last March, even in Germany they took for granted that Alaba would play for Real Madrid and that Zidane would have said yes to the operation. It was published by the newspaper Bild. So the player was about to enter the last year of his contract, something that has already happened. And in recent dates it even transpired that there is a total confrontation between the player and Bayern, and that his departure is already inevitable. His father, in 2018, even admitted that there were contacts. “Everyone knows about Madrid's interest in my son,” he said then. That interest is reciprocal and, now, the right opportunity.

Alaba's father, who previously ran his son's affairs, has now put them in the hands of super-agent Pini Zahavi. This one would also be inclined to facilitate the transfer of Alaba to Real Madrid. The Israeli-born agent, who began working as a journalist before becoming a representative, he built very good relations in the offices of the Bernabéu when he fought hard to materialize the transfer of Lewandowski, which finally could not be carried out. Zahavi, after Raiola, Mendes and Barnett, is one of the most influential players in the market… and he's crazy about starting to do business with Madrid. Praise would be a good start. But everything is subject to the hypothetical departure of Ramos, which, even today, seems more than unlikely.