A Close Associate of Florentino Announces Real Madrid's Second Signing for 2025-26 After Arnold

One of the signings that is getting closer to becoming a reality is the addition of Trent Alexander-Arnold. The current '66' of Liverpool announced just 24 hours ago that he would leave the red entity at the end of the current season, leaving English fans very upset. Regardless of that idea, from the offices of Valdebebas, they insist on completing his transfer as soon as possible.

Real Madrid's goal is to make a practically complete renovation of the defense, through signings like Trent Alexander-Arnold, to solve the team's problem this season. The lack of resources in the last line of Santiago Bernabéu locker room has become an impossible-to-ignore weakness.

That's why Trent Alexander-Arnold won't be the only signing devised by the merengue bosses for the summer market. The debates in the offices of Valdebebas about the next player to join the merengue sports discipline point toward the arrival of a center-back, but the information has now changed. One of the journalists closest to Florentino Pérez, president of Real Madrid, provides a different version.

Joaquín Maroto, in one of his latest public interventions, has indicated that Real Madrid is focused on also completing the roster of midfielders. The retirement of Toni Kroos, as well as the doubts about Luka Modric's continuity in the first team, open the necessary space to add another high-quality midfielder.

He Will Be the Next, They Are Sure

The ideal signing for the white sports management would be a creative midfielder with a defensive profile. The most important goal is to find the player who can continue the role of organizing pivot that Toni Kroos played during his last campaigns as a white footballer. That task is proving to be more difficult to complete than they had initially imagined, but the search has borne fruit.

So much so that the name of Martín Zubimendi resonates strongly in the corridors of the offices of Valdebebas. Joaquín Maroto has indicated that this signing "is practically done". It's no wonder, since the new coach of Real Madrid would have pointed to the txuri-urdin midfielder as one of the 'mandatory' transfers to rebuild the team this very summer.

Xabi Alonso has in Martín Zubimendi a "direct request" for Real Madrid according to the information currently handled by Joaquín Maroto. The journalist from the As newspaper, at the same time, makes it clear that the Basque '4' has announced to the blue and white bosses his intention to leave in mid-2025. The doubt about the destination team could be solved based on what was revealed by Joaquín Maroto.

The journalist from As places Real Madrid ahead of Arsenal in the 'Zubimendi case', despite the fact that the gunner entity had the necessary assets to make that signing. The request from Xabi Alonso to the Madrid board, however, would have activated multiple operations in the white leadership that would have reversed the dynamics... placing Real Madrid, according to Joaquín Maroto, as the number one candidate to sign Martín Zubimendi.