Goodbye to Real Madrid and he won't travel to the Club World Cup, Saturday is his last match.

Everyone at Real Madrid, despite the current league campaign not yet being over, is closely watching the Club World Cup. After all, multiple changes are expected in the merengue sports discipline right before that competition: the first is the arrival of Xabi Alonso as a replacement for Carlo Ancelotti. The Basque coach would bring more changes to Santiago Bernabéu locker room.

The leaders led by Florentino Pérez are not only focused on the signings that the new Madrid coach might request. Because there are also footballers whose contracts end this season and whose future in the first team is in doubt: Luka Modric, Lucas Vázquez, and Jesús Vallejo are the three main ones in question.

The 'case' of the Zaragoza central defender, according to the information revealed by Guillermo Rai, would already be solved. His almost negligible impact on the competitive pace of the current season, given that Carlo Ancelotti never counted on him, has ended with his departure this very week. Jesús Vallejo will leave Real Madrid before the Club World Cup.

The Spanish '18' was seen as one of the great promises of national soccer but never managed to meet the initial expectations. His return to the club in the summer of 2024, after a really complicated loan at Granada, left very few options for prominence for the central defender. However, Jesús Vallejo refused to accept a departure and sought to exhaust his options of playing with the merengue jersey.

He has been left out of the plans

The sports management tried to find a team to take him on in the summer 2024 market and the January 2025 window without much success. Jesús Vallejo also dismissed that possibility from the start, arguing that he wished to stay in the first team to establish himself as a second-line alternative to the main starters in defense. He hasn't succeeded.

That's why the white club won't count on him for the Club World Cup. Xabi Alonso loses one of the central defenders Carlo Ancelotti has counted on in this final stretch of the season, but in return, he receives a more than exciting signing. The arrival of Dean Huijsen immediately fills the spot that Jesús Vallejo will leave vacant next Monday, May 26, a day after the last match of LaLiga 24/25.

The urgent renewal of several positions in the squad has already pointed to its first departure: Jesús Vallejo. The football level of the merengue '18' did not meet the requirements established from the Valdebebas offices, which is why this Spanish central defender will leave as a free agent. His contract ends in just a month and a half, in June 2025.

This is how the first departure from Real Madrid is announced, anticipating the period of changes that this summer will be. The arrival of Xabi Alonso promises a series of modifications aimed at quickly regaining the winning path that has been so scarce during the current soccer season.