Gonzalo responds to Endrick's decision, imminent signing after being Mundi's top-level scorer

One of the major questions left by Real Madrid's first team ahead of next season is in the roster of forwards. The board's moves, as well as Rodrygo Goes's hints about leaving Spain's capital, leave a considerable group of forwards... to which Gonzalo García would have joined after the Club World Cup.

The failed loan of Endrick to Real Sociedad adds more complications to the management of a highly desired spot on the field. Not for nothing, Xabi Alonso would have decided to play with only two forwards starting August 19, so the competition among the non-regular starting footballers will be at its peak.

The two main protagonists without a doubt will be Gonzalo García and Endrick. Real Madrid's youth product is about to reach the first team after delivering an excellent performance in the Club World Cup, a competition in which he finished as top scorer. The competition between these two young forwards, according to what we have learned at Defensa Central, encourages both to stay with the team.

Especially after the loan of Endrick to Real Sociedad did not go through. Gonzalo García's agents are now waiting to conclude negotiations for a contract renewal that would place their client in the first team, an idea promoted from the Valdebebas offices.

Direct confrontation

The information published by "The Athletic" would provide important clues about the future of a forward who had planned to leave Spain's capital this summer, after the Club World Cup. Aware of this situation, motivated by Endrick's injury, Xabi Alonso decided to include him in the expedition to the United States.

His great performance in the tournament organized by FIFA, however, completely changed the scenario for both Gonzalo García himself and his main competitor, Endrick. Even the "16" verdeamarelo would have lost the lead in the race to definitively secure the role of Kylian Mbappé's second-in-command this season.

Gonzalo García's agents are trying to place him definitively in Santiago Bernabéu locker room, negotiations that come thanks to his good performancein the United States. Also by recommendation of Xabi Alonso, who has sought to diversify all possible options for the "9" position as much as possible: he wanted to find Joselu's heir.

In the still "30" merengue would be the answer to the tactical doubts of the first team's coach. That's why Gonzalo García's renewal is a more than forceful response in the direct competition with Endrick, whose injury prevents him from providing a reply on the field.