The quarry as a vaccine against the economic crisis it is causing and that will leave behind the Covid-19. That is the recipe that Javier Tebas has recommended to LaLiga clubs to sustain spending, including Real Madrid. But what is in Factory white that could make an immediate jump to the first team?
Castilla have not been a reliable element this season. Raúl’s work has been left unfinished. But you can draw conclusions. In goal and defense there has not been a superlative footballer this season. Altube (20 years old), chosen by Zidane to be the third goalkeeper, has not excelled in the 12 games he played with the subsidiary: only in two did he leave his goal at zero. Belman (21), the other tenant of the goal, is injured. If we move, line by line, forward, there are hardly any certainties. Only Fran García (20) on the left side has been really constant. Bolaños de Calatrava’s roadrunner has already debuted with the first team and is a round-trip player of the likes at the Bernabéu. But his bad luck is that would have to enter the most competition area per square meter of the club. As ‘three’ are Marcelo, Mendy, Achraf could play there and Reguilón hopes to return. As central, one of the big bets is Mario Gila (19), who has just been renewed until 2024. He is an U-19 international, but his experience is limited to 21 matches in the Second B. From the source (21) has lived an irregular season and already stuck to the other band, there has been no owner in the competition Guillem-Sergio López on the right side …
The highlight of Raúl’s subsidiary comes in a very specific position, the core. The Cordovan pair Antonio Blanco-Miguel Baeza. The first, champion of Europe with the U19, is a midfielder with manners and leadership. Perhaps, along with his countryman, the most outstanding of this castillista generation. Baeza (20), a few meters ahead, scores the goal. He was the top scorer of Castilla (nine goals) before the break. Offers have and probably if the economic crisis in football progresses over time, the more interested there will be.
Gelabert, on the Di Stéfano lawn.
The shadow of injuries
The problem of calibrating the preparation of white promises is complex. Gelabert, Pedro, Rodrigo Rodrigues… several of the players with the best potential have suffered serious physical mishaps in recent months. Gelabert is highly valued in Valdebebas and has offers from abroad, but two injuries (knee and clavicle) in the last two seasons they have become an unknown quantity. This course, with Castilla, only 13 appearances. Too little to break through. Pedro was the starting point for Castilla (four goals in 18 days) and in the summer he had rejected Primeras, but he also stopped his knee in its tracks. He is recovering from a ruptured crusader, internal and external meniscus. Rodrigues, Brazilian from the Calafat factoryFor his part, he is in the process of recovering a meniscus and his return to the playing fields is uncertain. It will be one more ‘signing’, but it is not yet clear when. Even the Argentine Feuillassier, another who moved into the orbit of the first team with a debut included in 2017, was slowed by a crusader break.
Sintes, Miguel Gutiérrez and Morante, three of the pearls of Juvenil A.
The Juvenile is still cooking …
In Valdebebas there is talent approaching the limits of the first team, also in Juvenil A by Dani Poyatos. There is a quartet of caliber players, all of them U19 internationals: Miguel Gutierrez (left side), Pablo Ramón (central), Xavi Sintes (midfielder) e Ivan Morante (midfielder, recently signed from Villarreal). All four entered the last U19 roster and they are Generation Z of Madrid, but they have not even acted with Castilla. Not a party between all. The closest to the first team has been Gutiérrez. Zidane does know him, because he made him play against Galatasaray in the Audi Cup last summer, but the same thing happens to him as to Fran García. Being Madrid’s left back is very expensive.
Whether you can promote them to the first team now or not, the club is still trying to find jewelry. He does it with the peace of mind that, if the door of the first team is closed, they will also generate benefits in the accounts of the Madrid entity. In the last decade it sold stonemasons for € 245M, La Fábrica is a mine. In one way or another, Valdebebas always produces.
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