Madrid will start preseason on July 15 with a third of the team, half Castilla, Rafa Marin and three on loan in the air | Relief

Real Madrid already have a date set to return to training to start the 2024-25 preseason at Valdebebas. It will take place on Monday, July 15, a day after the Euro Cup final is played in Berlin and at the same time as the America’s Cup final in Miami. For this reason, and as is the case in final stage years, Ancelotti will recruit a third of his squad to Madrid that day and complete training with several Castilla youth players (at least half a dozen), as well as Will provide shelter to all four on loan while waiting for a solution to their future, as they only have Rafa Marin (Alavés).

The Italian coach wants to call his team just a month before the start of the league championship (The first day will be held between Friday, August 16 and Monday, August 19) knowing that there is There are many possibilities that Real Madrid will have to play the European Super Cup against Atalanta at the National Stadium in Warsaw (Poland) on Wednesday, August 14. If they are able to defeat Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League final on June 1. Although this season has been spectacular, with the achievement of LaLiga and the Spanish Super Cup, and which could be ended with fifteenth, CarlettoHe does not want to rest and wants to continue expanding the Santiago Bernabeu showcase.

The idea of ​​the technical staff is that, in those first 10 days of work in the Spanish capital, the footballers undergo the relevant medical examinations and put themselves in the hands of Antonio Pintus to be subjected to the first physical workloads and to their special checks (tests, hypoxia tests with the training mask…). The plan is because the international players who will be with their national teams from June will join the team as soon as they are out.

In both Euro Cup and Copa America.

At present, the participation of Modric (Croatia), Bellingham (England), Lunin (Ukraine), Camavinga, Mendy, Tchoumeni (France), Kroos, Rudiger (Germany) and Güler (Turkey) in these championships is confirmed. And they will almost certainly include a few more people. Among them are permanent for the Spanish: Carvajal and Joselu de la Fuente and everything indicates that Nacho will accompany them in the list that the coach will announce next Monday at 11:00. To those 12 players we have to add that Vinicius, Militao and Rodrigo will play the Copa America with Brazil, and Valverde with Uruguay. Without forgetting that Andric with Canarinha and Mbappe with France also have commitments and will join in later.

A flurry of returns and commitments

In total, Ancelotti won’t be able to work with 18 international players initially, so he will only have half a dozen professionals under his command. These will start their holidays on June 2 and, therefore, they will have more than a month of rest: this group is made up of Courtois (who is no longer with Belgium), Alaba (who is recovering from his knee injury), fran garcia And lucas vazquez (if they have not been recruited by La Rosa), ceballos and Brahim. The rest, who will go with their national teams, must have three weeks off, so the Madridistas who arrive in the group stage (end of June) will join the group in the second week of work of Real Madrid (starting on July 22), while those who reach the final round will do so at the end of July. Those who reach the semi-finals and the final will be handed over to Ancelotti’s hands at the beginning of August, when the campaign returns from its place. stage

In the United States. In the case of European Super Cup play, the idea is that the coach can rely on his entire team.

That match to fight for another title is up in the air. Real Madrid has already closed, and continues to outline, its roadmap during the summer, where there is concern that the excess of matches will not leave space to organize the most appropriate training sessions for those dates of course. After the first week of work in Valdebebas, the team will pack its bags again for a new tour. Another year he would participate in the Soccer Champions Tour. They face Milan in Chicago on July 31; to Barcelona in East Rutherford (New Jersey) on August 3; and to Chelsea in Charlotte on August 6. Now the pressure (especially commercial) revolves around Real Madrid being able to bring most of its stars, including Mbappe, to these commitments. But it will depend on how far the international level goes in the Euro Cup and Copa America. Those who reach the semi-finals will not participate.

Solution

To mitigate this defeat, Ancelotti will call up several Castilla youth players. From goalkeeper Fran González, whom the coach wants to start next season in the reserve team, to players who have already been in the discipline of the first team on some occasions, such as Mario Martín (his right eye in the center of the field), Nico Paz, Obrador and Álvaro, plus Asencio, César Palacios, Gonzalo or the talisman Jeremy de León. There will be days when the first team will share sessions, schedules and fields with Castilla. In fact, there already are Work meetings with Raul To prepare for the next preseason.

This group of eligible players will include a homegrown central defender who has already served abroad: it is Rafa Marin. The player from Guadajos (Seville) has many options to be part of the team at 22 years of age and has two more seasons on his contract as a Real Madrid player. Of course, his future depends on what decision Nacho finally makes, whom everyone outside Real Madrid believes but who sometimes repeats the doubts that already held him back last season, and what the market offers. The sports management has their eyes on Yoro, but Lille’s high economic aspirations are hindering it.

While the white club has no doubts about the other three on loan this season: Reinier (Frosinone), Juanmi Latassa (Getafe) and Jesús Vallejo (Granada). None of the three are in Ancelotti’s plans, so they will try to resolve their situations before July 15 so they don’t have to return to work like the others. Coaches do not like to have players under their wing who they know will not be there during the season. However if that happens we will have to wait, as the club needs to find accommodation for him as everyone’s contract is in place for another season (Reinier until 2026 and Latasa and Vallejo, who are still out until 2025). The Italian has no problem working with the rest of his colleagues because he has great affection for all of them.