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Leganés Player that Real Madrid is Going to Transfer after Beating Barça, 18 Years Old

Talent scouts led by Juni Calafat have found a new target in Spanish soccer

Real Madrid's activity in the transfer market is not limited to the first team. The sporting management is also keeping an eye on multiple options to expand the teams of its most important B teams. Especially Real Madrid Castilla and the Juvenil A, two great exponents of national soccer.

The talents that emerge from La Fábrica rarely make it to the first Whites' team, but most of them have established themselves in the First Divisions of the soccer elite. In recent years the number of such cases has grown exponentially, encouraging more transfers to swell the list of players trained at Valdebebas.

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Lamini Fati during a match with Leganés | Real Madrid Confidencial

The latest arrival at Real Madrid City could be Lamini Fati. The Leganés defender, great player from the youth academy so far this season, has entered the radar of the Madrid sports management: his transfer is close.

The information published by Relevo reveals that Real Madrid's talent scouts have made him a target for the next summer transfer market. Not for the first team despite the striking shortage of personnel that the white team has had since the start of the 24/25 season.

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Lamini Fati would become part of Real Madrid Castilla, an addition designed to replaceRaúl Asencio's 'promotion' to the first team. The Canary Islander '35' is definitely drafted to the first team despite Tchouaméni's return to the center-back position. It is necessary to have extra players in case the French '14' gets injured again or in case his teammate, Antonio Rüdiger, needs to rest.

Transfer Lamini Fati will not be an easy task. Although he is still in the Madrid club's youth system, he has the talent and the necessary assets to make sporadic appearances in the first team. His good potential, which is well known at Leganés, represents another significant obstacle for this operation.

Two soccer players compete for the ball during a match between Liverpool and Real Madrid.
Raúl Asencio fights for a ball with Darwin Nunez | Reuters

The need to make transfers in the center of defense doesn't only apply to the first team. Real Madrid Castilla also needs capable players in that position... and not only because of the departure of Raúl Asencio, who has shown that he has more than enough to be in the European elite on a regular and continuous basis.

However, Carlo Ancelotti has decided to move the Canary Island center-back to the bench after Aurélien Tchouaméni's return. The excellent results achieved by the player trained at La Fábrica haven't been enough to reserve him a place in the starting eleven. This decision fuels the debate about the use that the Reggiolo-based manager makes of promising youngsters.

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