Article by Daniel Grigore – published on Thursday, May 15, 2025, 17:51 / Updated Thursday, May 15, 2025 17:51
Real Madrid seeks to transfer a left defender this summer and has been oriented to Alvaro Carreras, a Spanish side that evolves from 2024 to Benfica.
Real Madrid has already resolved two transfers for the next season, on “Bernabeu” to reach the right-handed defender Alexander-Arnold and the central defender Dean Huijsen, whose termination clause of the contract with Bournemouth was activated.
The team in the capital of Spain is now seeking to strengthen the position of left defender, one of the most important in the system of the future coach on “Bernabeu”, Xabi Alonso.
Huijsen solved, Real Madrid now wants Alvaro Carreras
The main target for the left flank is Alvaro Carrerasa Spanish defender that Real Madrid had it in its own yard in the period 2017-2020. Carreras later passed the Manchester United, where Benfica bought in the summer of 2024 for 6 million euros.
The contract between Benfica and Carreras provides for a termination clause worth 50 million euros. The brand writes that Real Madrid “intends to negotiate to descend below that amount.”
A possible obstacle to the transfer is Manchester United. That's because the Premier League band has Priority to Carreras's transfer and a clause that allows it to bring it back to England for only 18 million euros. The strength of the Madrid is that the Spanish defender would not want to return to the island.
Hungarian Milos Kerkez is the damage solution
If they will not be able to solve Carreras's bringing, Real Madrid think of Milos Kerkez, the Hungarian left side that evolves in England, at Bournemouth.
Kerkez impressed this season and It also has among the “petitioners” bands such as Liverpool and Manchester United.
According to the quoted source, the Madrid was offered Theo Hernandez, the left defender of AC Milan, but in the offices on “Bernabeu” would be no interest in the repatriation of Hernandez, which belonged to the real between 2017 and 2019.
