Real Madrid Will Pull Off This Genius Free Transfer

Real Madrid is set to pull off what could prove to be a genius free transfer according to Mundo Deportivo, which cited anonymous sources.

President Florentino Perez has acted swiftly following a trophyless season in terms of major silverware, as bitter rival FC Barcelona swept a domestic treble in Spain.

His first port of call was replacing head coach Carlo Ancelotti, who now oversees the Brazil national team, and replacing him with one of the game’s most hyped young managers in Xabi Alonso.

On the weekend that the 2024/2025 La Liga campaign drew to a close, Madrid then announced that it had activated Spain international Dean Huijsen’s $60 million (£50 million) release clause at Bournemouth.

This was Madrid’s first piece of business in the transfer market, which was quickly followed by paying $11.4 million (€10 million) to get Trent Alexander-Arnold out of an expiring Liverpool contract earlier than June 30, so that he can play the World Club Cup in the United States this month.

The newly-reimagined FIFA tournament with huge prize money on offer is one that Argentine wonderkid Franco Mastantuono is expected to feature at for his boyhood club River Plate.

After the competition, however, he should then cross the Atlantic and complete his transfer to Real Madrid after Los Blancos came out of nowhere and renewed interest in the whiz kid at a time when Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City appeared to be the frontrunners for his capture.

To cap off a week where a delegation travelled to Buenos Aires to get the deal over the line, Madrid looks set to pay the youngster’s $51.5 million (€45 million) release clause after reaching an agreement with both the player and his current employer.

Aged just 17, Mastantuono is a punt for the future alongside Endrick and Arda Guler. But Perez isn’t done there in playing the long game, and while those mentioned three transfers cost around $170 million (€147 million to be exact in euros), the Bernabeu boss is looking even further into the future and could have pulled off a major coup.

Real Madrid could pay nothing for a future superstar

This is because according to Mundo Deportivo, Ajax’s Abdellah Ouazane will join Real Madrid’s Castilla reserve outfit in July. Aged 16, he will do so at zero cost because the prodigy of Moroccan descent did not agree fresh terms with the Dutch club in what could prove to be another transfer market masterstroke from Perez.