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Real Madrid's bet on Rodrygo's future if Manchester City returns

The dilemma surrounding the Osasco forward presents several solutions for the first white team

Real Madrid keeps assessing its assets for the upcoming season, generating several debates that involve specific names. One of the most notable is Rodrygo Goes, whose situation in Santiago Bernabéu locker room has reportedly changed radically in recent months. The merengue footballer would no longer be indispensable due to several significant and important factors.

Without a doubt, his performance during the current campaign, below the desired level, has influenced the change in status experienced by Rodrygo Goes. Likewise, the succession of Carlo Ancelotti by Xabi Alonso would open new tactical and technical considerations in which the '11' verdeamarelowould not participate as a key starter.

A player in a white uniform celebrates on the field during a match, while another player in a red uniform is facing away.
Rodrygo Goes celebrates a goal scored against Stade Brestois | Real Madrid Confidencial

In this context, from the Valdebebas offices, they seem willing to listen to offers that would take Rodrygo Goes away from Santiago Bernabéu locker room. One of the most recurring during recent summers, given the interest of several club staff members in acquiring his football services, belongs to Manchester City.

The approaches from the sky blue entity, partly facilitated by a Pep Guardiola "in love" with the associative play of the Osasco striker, have been duly rejected by Real Madrid. Also from Rodrygo's own camp, since the carioca footballer has made it clear that he wishes to continue wearing the merengue jersey beyond the end of his current contract.

They offer a timely exit

The bond that unites Rodrygo Goes and Real Madrid ends in the summer of 2029, but the white executives have been contemplating for several weeks a premature end to that contract. The information published by Carlos Carpio suggests that Real Madrid is considering accepting a hypothetical future offer sent by Manchester City.

Especially if those approaches from the cityzen team are on the same terms as in previous occasions, notes the journalist from MARCA. Rodrygo Goes would definitively lose his status as non-transferable and untouchable as a result of this information revealed by Carlos Carpio, a change driven by the tactical aspect.

Real Madrid soccer players celebrating on the field during a match.
Rodrygo Goes celebrates a goal with Real Madrid | Real Madrid Confidencial

Rodrygo has lost his place in Real Madrid's ideal starting eleven. The 4-4-2 formation that Carlo Ancelotti might employ until the end of the current campaign, in the final stretch of the fight for LaLiga, doesn't consider him as a midfielder. Instead, the Reggiolo coach prefers to give minutes to players more suited to that position, such as Dani Ceballos or an Arda Güler who is experiencing an upward trend these days.

If a Manchester City offer similar to the one sent on previous occasions arrives, Carlos Carpio recalls, Real Madrid believes that Rodrygo should accept it. Especially because the verdeamarelo footballer is starting to lose his starting credentials and, with the hypothetical system change brought by Xabi Alonso, that trend would be definitively consolidated.

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