No party involved, from Real Madrid, thought that this state would be reached: the man from Palma de Mallorca can leave totally free in 8 months and can negotiate freely from January 1 with any club without having to have permission from the white entity
Laporta’s Barça messes up… and it’s not the only one
Any club, without exception, including Laporta’s Barça himself. A team that has already tested Jorge Mendes, through Joan Laporta, to study the feasibility of signing the Mallorcan. There are several open fronts with Ansu Fati or Alejandro Balde, among others, and the Portuguese agent, also taking advantage of the meetings for the signing of Bernardo Silva, put the name of Marco Asensio at the Camp Nou
A delicate situation, that of his contract, and of which there are also other teams that want to take advantage of the matter. Asensio also has the door open at the San Siro with Milan, in Newcastle, London with Arsenal or in Manchester with United . Everyone is carefully watching the situation of the Madrid ’11’ and they know that it is a great market candy that could be totally free. A unique opportunity to make a leap in quality to his squad. It is the most difficult issue at the Santiago Bernabéu. In Madrid, precisely, there is a clash of interests between parts of the club
Ancelotti has him as untouchable
There is the position of Carlo Ancelotti, totally clairvoyant, irreversible since September 1 happened and Marco Asensio continued at Real Madrid: he is going to use it and it is important in his squad. If he depended on Reggiolo’s coach, Marco would stay at Real Madrid and there would be nothing more to add. The coach has him among his favorites and he is not going to change his position easily. He is already counting on him, in fact, as the best revulsion of his current squad and he knows that having Asensio plugged in is vital to have a good wardrobe and to have goals from the bench and that, from time to time, also can sign up for ownership
180 degree turn
Then there is the position of the club, as an entity, with the board as the judge of the matter. Asensio was untouchable and up to 150 million euros were rejected when he was in his prime and when Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool tried to do something crazy to sign him and take him to Anfield Road. Now, taking a radical 180 degree turn, the matter has completely changed: it is far from untouchable and, in fact, it was intended to do business with it. Mendes did not want to sit at the negotiating table by the will of the player himself and played cat and mouse. One thing or another. The worst possible for all parties. In the field he is now sacrificing himself and understanding his role and there are more and more followers who are betting on the renewal of the man from Palma de Mallorca
He has earned himself on the grass with good performances that he could sign his contract renewal. Add a total of 246 minutes, far from the peak used by Carlo Ancelotti in the previous season and much further from the minutes that Zinedine Zidane offered him when he kept him as the undisputed starter in the merengue team in his two previous spells as coach of the Real Madrid. In that period, as a revulsion, he has scored 2 goals and has given another 2 distributed in the few minutes that the Italian coach has offered him
great challenge
Marco Asensio is facing the great challenge of his international sports career . He went through the last World Cup, the one in Russia, without pain or glory, and it was expected that he could lead the team led by Hierro. Several selectors have passed since then and nothing has changed. The Spaniard does not pull the bandwagon of the national team and is discussed again at the peak of the year for the team. Luis Enrique will call him to go to the World Cup in Qatar, with total probability, and there he will have to take that step forward in a major challenge in his career with the Spanish team. It is the great challenge that can put him in the showcase or that can finish accelerating Real Madrid’s plans to renew his contract and sign an extension beyond 2023
