Carlo Ancelotti won the Champions League, La Liga and the Spanish Super Cup with just 16 players, joined by Dani Ceballos when injuries allowed him to regain his form. In fact, the Otrera player is one of the two elements of the veteran Italian coach’s “imperial guard” whose continuity cannot be guaranteed. The other is Marco Asensio. One year before the expiration of his contract, the club was arguing with the Mallorcans between renewal or sale
The rest hardly got into Ancelotti’s plans. At the cost of figuring out how to solve Ceballos and Asensio’s future, there are seven neglected players who will have to find a way out of this summer market
Three of them have their contract expired, Gareth Bale, Isco Alarcón and Marcelo Vieira. Luka Jovic and Mariano did not respond as substitutes for Karim Benzema while they were at the beginning of the road. They both assumed there was no place for them with Ancelotti and that the best thing was to look for new horizons, so they would agree to leave. Of course, the Serbian striker is only considering a move, because with three seasons on the contract and only 24 years old, he is still confident of success at the Santiago Bernabeu
Jesus Fabigo showed commitment and performed well when it was required of him, especially in the Champions League semi-final against Manchester City, but Ancelotti is not convinced of him and the club will ask to move for him. For his part, Lunin needs to play after two years on the bench but everything points to a sale
Real Madrid filled only one of those seven positions with the now official signing of Antonio Rudiger. And the list of reinforcements could rise to eight if Ceballos and Asencio also gave up White Discipline. In this sense, Schwamini will take the place of Otriano, if Real Madrid ends up winning the deal over Paris Saint-Germain. The third priority is a striker position, but after Kylian Mbappe has run out, Merengue sports management has no alternative
The Italian has a range of options with players on loan from Real Madrid: Alvaro Odriozola, Brahim Diaz, Borja Mayoral, Fran Garcia, Victor Chost and Tek Kubo. And the alternative to Al-Nashin, where Antonio Blanco, Sergio Arribas, Juanmi Latasa or Miguel Gutierrez stand out
