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Actual Madrid boss Xabi Alonso might be working to guard key midfielder from harm Fede Valverde this season.
Alonso signed a three-year contract again in Madrid because the membership push for a brand new period following Carlo Ancelotti’s departure in Might.
Valverde will tackle much more duty within the coming months after former captain Luka Modric introduced down the curtain on 13 unimaginable years on the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu, with Valverde now transferring as much as vice captain.
Thee fit-again Dani Carvajal might be captain, however based mostly on his latest harm document and the arrival of Trent Alexander-Arnold, Valverde might don the armband on a number of events.
The change is a part of an ongoing upward curve for Valverde, who can be captain for Marcelo Bielsa’s Uruguay, and Alonso is assured he’ll rise to the problem.
Nonetheless, the membership’s medical employees are cautious on overloading him, based mostly on some spectacular statistics over the past two seasons.
‘Marathon man Valverde’ leads Alonso’s new-look Actual Madrid
Because the begin of the 2023/24 marketing campaign, Actual Madrid have performed 123 matches in all competitionsof which Valverde has participated in 119, a complete of 9,808 minutes.
Primarily deployed in his favoured central midfield slot, Valverde has additionally coated on the best of midfield, and at proper again – following Carvajal’s AC harm final season.
Valverde racked up 6,676 minutes performed in 2024/25 – the very best whole in world soccer – cut up throughout motion for Actual Madrid and Uruguay.
Alonso has in contrast Valverde to his former teammate Steven Gerrard as indication of his worth to Los Blancos.
As per stories from Diario AS, Alonso will choose in opposition to utilizing him as a cease hole in sure place this season, to keep away from harm.
Alexander-Arnold and Carvajal have proper again coated and that can cut back his have to step in as an emergency possibility with Dani Ceballos anticipated to remain as an additional physique in midfield.
