Arsenal and France Ster William Saliba stays at the top of the Real Madrid list, while the Spanish club wants to add reinforcements during the Summer Transfer window during the summer transfer window.
Arsenal is confronted with a fight to hold on to the center of William Saliba, where Real Madrid makes the defender their top objective. The Spanish giants have long been admirers of the French international and are expected to perform their pursuit if they seem to recover from a difficult season.
Madrid is ready to enter the 2025-26 campaign with a new manager. Carlo Ancelotti is tipped to take over the boss of Brazil after a season in which Los Blancos saw the Champions League and Copa del Rey Glory missing while he was currently in second place in La Liga.
With Toni Rudiger and David Alaba from a contract in 2026, and with Eder Militao about injury problems, the 2024 Champions League winners want to strengthen at the back. Saliba is their top goal, but he is not the only Premier League star who attracts interest.
According to Marca, Madrid will look at one of Dean Huijsen or Manuel Akanji if they are unable to land Saliba. Bournemouth and Spain Center-Back Huijsen is supposed to have a release clause of £ 50 million that comes into effect during the summer window, while Akanji van Manchester City has specifically been a target for Ancelotti.
The same publication suggests that the Spanish club also views a Premier League pair in midfield in the midst of a conviction Martin Zubimendi will opt for Arsenal above Los Blancos. Sandro Tonali from Newcastle and Alexis Mac Allister from Liverpool are the players in question, although both are important figures for their current clubs This term and Madrid can get a fight to land.
Saliba was an important part of the Arsenal side that Real Madrid beat in their quarterfinals of Champions League. The Ancelotti team bounced back from that European elimination with back-to-back competition profits, but was defeated by fierce Rivals Barcelona in the Copa del Rey-final.
Jules Kounde scored an extra-time winner for Barca, with Madrid Center-back Rudiger who may have been a long-term ban for throwing an object in the direction of the referee. The Catalan club is also in pole Positon to win La Liga, with four points clearly with five games left.
Arsenal van Saliba Face Paris Saint-Germain in the next round of the Champions League, with the first stage that takes place on Tuesday evening. The side of Mikel Arteta came at the top in a competition phase between the parties, but Gunners captain Martin Odegaard expects a different challenge.
“It will be a different type of game than the last time we played, and now we are now in the knockout phases, which is also changing the dynamics,” Odegaard told Club Media. “However, we can certainly use that victory in our advantage in October.
“I think you can always look back at earlier meetings to see their patterns and how they want to play. Their style and everything will be similar, and they are the same two coaches as when we played last. But the opportunity is now a completely different story. It is a semi -final, more than two legs, when everything is on the line. We have to be ready for the test.”
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