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Real Madrid Forward Who Almost Left in the Winter Transfer Market Had 2 Offers

The player has experienced remarkable growth since the season started

One of the most striking teams of Real Madrid is Real Madrid Castilla. The shortage of personnel that Bernabéu changing room is experiencing has led Ancelotti to turn to the first reserve team to complete his squad definitively.

Indeed, the most striking case of this practice is Raúl Asencio. The '35' from the Canary Islands joined the first team due to the injuries of Éder Militão and David Alaba. As well as the refusal of the executives led by Florentino to make one of the transfers requested by the coach during the winter market.

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Carlo Ancelotti and Florentino Pérez this season | Real Madrid Confidencial

The defender from La Fábrica, leader of the Castilla defense, is not the only one who has recently joined the first team. The 'promotion' of Lorenzo Aguado, right winger, is also due to the lack of personnel in that position: Dani Carvajal is recovering from a triple tear in his right knee. There are still no possibilities of acquiring a forward due to the crowded and complete roster of strikers available to the Italian strategist.

Meanwhile, the management of young talents like Endrick and Güler is a significant obstacle for the arrival of players like Víctor Muñoz. The attacking midfielder of Castilla, another of Raúl González Blanco's most advanced pupils, increasingly aspires to 'take off' definitively in the Spanish soccer elite.

Total refusal

This is demonstrated by the offers that Real Madrid has received for the '9' of its first reserve team. The proposals from Real Valladolid and Getafe, very interesting for the player to start his journey away from Valdebebas, have been categorically rejected. Thus, neither of those two teams will secure the loan of Víctor Muñoz for the remainder of the season according to information published by 'Relevo'.

This digital newspaper reveals the growing interest in one of the figures of Castilla that is already generating some internal debates in the Valdebebas offices. The same happens with the members of what seems to be another golden generation. Víctor Muñoz, Raúl Asencio, Jacobo Ramón, or Gonzalo García are the most prominent.

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Raúl Asencio in a training session with the first team | Real Madrid Confidencial

The potential that Real Madrid has accumulated in its first reserve team remains awaiting an opportunity in the first team. Carlo Ancelotti has called several of these players for the LaLiga and Champions League match squads, with debuts that leave good impressions at all levels of the club. Part of the solution to the personnel shortage of the main squad could lie in these names.

Especially because there are fewer and fewer opportunities to compete in the transfer market of the European football elite. The stringent requirements to sign players who provide longevity and quality, a profile sought by the white executives, could be definitively replaced by the talents developed in Valdebebas.

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