The arrival of Rüdiger conditions Rafa Marín and Víctor Chust

Real Madrid has reactivated the possibility of obtaining the signing of Antonio Rüdiger to shore up the Madrid defense. An idea that seemed far away but has heated up in recent weeks and is very close to coming to fruition. A move that significantly changes Real Madrid’s plan for the central quarter of the 2022-23 squad. Militao, Alaba and Nacho are untouchable, but for months the entity has made the decision to find a way out for Jesús Vallejo. For that square, Madrid has been considering two possibilities, to stay with Víctor Chust (22 years old) once he returns from his loan at Cádiz where he is the starter and the other, look at Castilla, where Rafa Marín (19 years) has emerged inexorably as the defensive boss of the subsidiary white. Two young academy players with a poster but who were conditioned to what happened with Rüdiger…

The German will leave Chelsea and was plucking the daisy between Madrid, PSG and Juventus but he has opted for the Madrid offer. Just in case and if it has not materialized, in the white entity An alternative was being considered that would imply not having to pay a transfer and that is where both Chust and Marín come in. Well known in Valdebebas, young and with enough projection to take over from the three established Madrid central defenders.

Chust, a First Central for a million

The club proposed to Ancelotti the presence of Vallejo (returned from his loan at Granada) as the fourth central defender in the squad and the Italian agreed, although he told both him and Mariano that they were not going to play. That curtailed the hopes of the two homegrown players who were on the table: Mario Gila (as this newspaper reported) and Chust’s, who was in the dynamics of the first team and made his debut with Zidane last season. As AS learned, Madrid agreed with the Valencian central defender that if he could not guarantee him a place in the first team for 2022-23, he would facilitate his definitive departure for a very affordable figure, which is around one million euros. A market bargain for a footballer who has played 27 games in the First Division this year in his jump from Second B with Castilla to the highest category of our football. And with a good note.

Marín is ‘stopping’ other clubs

Madrid is not in a hurry but neither can it take a break with the lanky central defender from Castilla (1.91 meters). Rafa Marín recently expanded his contract until 2024 and therefore your situation He does not have a contractual hole through which any of the national and foreign clubs that have been prowling him, even of Champions caliber, can sneak in. His environment has been holding back these proposals while waiting to finish the season and see what plans Madrid has with the boy. For now, his present can say many things. Ancelotti included him in the squad for the second leg against Chelsea, also in Seville and at El Sadar. The debut with Madrid resists him (in addition to those occasions, he was on the bench three more times between the League and the Cup) than could already have a date: Saturday 30 against Espanyol and at the Bernabéu. That day neither Militao nor Nacho will be there due to suspension. A premiere, if produced against the parakeets, which will raise its cache even more and that would work as casting perfect.