This is the Ancelotti Plan 2022-23

Fernando Alonso has it and also Real Madrid along with Ancelotti, the Plan. In the case of the white entity, the strengths and needs of the workforce are delimited and the roadmap for 2022-23 is written. So much so that his own Carletto He doesn’t mind admitting it in public. “The planning for the next season is already done …”. A phrase thrown almost under the covers in the preview of the trip to Alcoy that contains in itself the new model of the club, which works not for months, but for years to come. Finish off Mbappé, strategically position oneself for Haaland, plug some of the holes left by the exits and keep an eye on the future of the other free agents that interest Madrid.

The first leg of the next decade’s project, the new Bernabéu, continues apace, and the second leg is close to being screwed in. It’s Mbappé. Madrid is calm with the situation of the French star but the tie with PSG puts any situation that could bother the Parisian club until March. The information provided this past Tuesday by the renowned footballers agent Giovanni Branchini in The Gazzetta dello Sport (“Madrid has offered € 50M to sign him in January”), which Madrid has unofficially denied. The white summer will turn on Mbappé, but also on Haaland.

As this newspaper reported, Haaland has chosen Madrid for a long time And now it is up to the entity to accommodate the wishes of the Norwegian to leave Dortmund right now with the club’s own interests, among which is to take the operation to 2023 if possible and see how to deal with the negotiation for the commission with Mino Raiola and the father of the forward, who is expected large. But the Nordic is showing impatience. Madrid is not concerned, for the moment, by the din of Joan Laporta to link with Haaland, a way of enhancing the narrative that Barcelona is still a top player From the market.

Not only those who are free will leave …

Of the names that end their contract, Madrid is only interested in the situation of Luka Modric, in line to renew for one more year. Neither Marcelo, nor Isco nor of course Bale, the highest paid of the squad this season (€ 17M net), are in the sketch of the next squad. The club also expects the departure of Ceballos and Vallejo. The first one faces his last year of ties with Madrid (it ends in 2023) and it is the ideal moment for a sale. The Zaragoza, a footballer who has only played three minutes this season and who has never convinced Ancelotti, will have to go out whether he likes it or not. The entity prepares its gap for another central (Rüdiger) and the fifth defender for practical purposes will be in Factory, with Rafa Marín as the main candidate.

The ‘Rüdiger case’, on hold

Madrid hopes to repeat Alaba’s move with the Chelsea lock, but there are obstacles. The first, that the German international himself locks himself into salary claims of 12 million net per year, which Alaba charges precisely. At that time, offering that salary to the Austrian made sense, due to the decision to let Ramos leave, but now and more with Militao’s performance, it is not so clear. Chelsea give him up for lost, PSG continues to sniff the situation but the Chamartín entity prefers not to go beyond the 10 million barrier, possible bonus included. Rüdiger, meanwhile, would have made his own exploration of the pros and cons of becoming a Madridista and from England they advance that his brother and also an agent intends to stretch the bid further. Rüdiger is not the only free agent that Madrid have monitored, although in other cases with less force. One of them, as AS reported, is the Ivorian midfielder Franck Kessié, who Milan cannot retain and continues to accumulate interested parties in recent dates (Liverpool, Tottenham …).

Evaluate an underutilized quarry

Among the minor strategy issues is determining which homegrown players can continue to act as a bridge between the first team and Castilla. Last summer any approach to Miguel Gutiérrez and Antonio Blanco, considered the two homegrown players more first team meat. For performance and because Zidane gave them that status last season. But Ancelotti does not participate in this evolution. They did not even travel to Alcoy for the round of 32 of the Cup. He traveled the (shortly) past and the supposed future stayed in Madrid. His cases and that of Arribas and Marvin will be examined in the summer. The club does not renounce them, but they will probably have to wait somewhere else for a gap.

There is a batch ready behind to do its function. Not just the cheeky Peter and Rafa Marín. Madrid have a lot of faith in several players who next year have to be very important for Raúl: Marvel and Bruno Iglesias. In any case, the role of Factory will be used again except for a twist in the script proposed by Carletto.