The price Real Madrid will pay to release Alexander-Arnold, Florentino agrees

Real Madrid keeps getting closer to finalizing the signing of Trent Alexander-Arnold. Initially, this signing was intended as a free transfer, but the need for right-backs for the Club World Cup would have changed everything. The Madrid bosses want to speed up his arrival as soon as possible.

Liverpool seems willing to solve the issue for Real Madrid, but they will do so in exchange for three well-known conditions. One of those demands is the payment of a symbolic transfer to certify the team change of Trent Alexander-Arnold, an amount that has not yet been definitively set. Most reports indicated that it would probably be around the one million euro mark.

That small debate about the early signing of Trent Alexander-Arnold would have ended according to the information published by ESPN. The American television network warns that Liverpool would have informed Real Madrid of the payment of about £840,000 as a symbolic transfer to sign the full-back now.

That compensation would be framed within the minimum expenses required from the noble area of Anfield Road for Trent Alexander-Arnold to be eligible for the Club World Cup. Real Madrid has the need to incorporate several signings for their defensive line and the still '66' red is one of the most urgent signings in recent times.

getting closer

ESPN points out that the bosses led by Florentino Pérez are really close to officially announcing the signing of Trent Alexander-Arnold. But first, they must comply with Liverpool's financial demands... as long as they want to have the British defender for the Club World Cup organized this summer.

That competition recovered by FIFA has disrupted all the plans devised in the Valdebebas offices. Not only in the incorporation of Trent Alexander-Arnold, a signing that had been considered as a free transfer, but also in the pace of arrivals of other names. One of the most notable is Xabi Alonso, who will take over the position left vacant by Carlo Ancelotti at the end of May.

The Basque coach had the "preference" to move to Real Madrid at the end of the Club World Cup. But the white leadership would have persuaded the former player, bringing him closer to the tactical command of the first team from next May 26, the day Carlo Ancelotti will become Brazil's coach. Xabi Alonso, however, will also request signings before playing the Club World Cup in the United States.

The white sports management is already working in that direction, fully aware of the shortage of personnel that the Madrid team has experienced for almost the entire current season. The reinforcements for the depleted defensive line are the number one priority for the white executives during the next summer market.