ANDl Real Madrid preseason starts next Monday, July 5. It does 40 days before the start of the competition with the start of the League on the weekend of August 14-15. Six weeks of preseason, twice as much as in the last campaign, altered by the pandemic.
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Many days of preparation ahead for Ancelotti that, however, you can now start to count the players you can count on for the future. his first eleven in the league premiere. Because the Eurocup, the Copa America and the ‘Operation Exit’ first condition the plans of the Italian technician.
For now, a few days after getting down to work in Valdebebas, Ancelotti already has six ‘signings’ for the start of the competition. Alaba, Bale, Modric, Varane, Benzema and Kroos are already out of the Eurocup and starting to enjoy the approximately three weeks vacation what will they have before return to work in Valdebebas.
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All of them should be incorporated in the week of July 19-25, with which they will have more than three weeks of preseason ahead before the start of the League. Just time for Ancelotti can count on them, taking into account that five of them start as ‘titularsimos’, waiting for what happens with Varane.
Meanwhile, the four who go to the Games, Asensio, Ceballos, Kubo and Vallejo, they are not a problem because they will arrive with the ‘military’ done, after train and compete with the national team until his return to the discipline of Madrid. Principally for Asensio and Ceballos, as Kubo and Vallejo they do not have a secured site in the template.
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Working in Valdebebas from the first day of preseason they will be Lunin, Altube, Carvajal, Lucas, Nacho, Marcelo, Mendy, Isco, Odegaard, Mariano, Rodrygo, Jovic, Odriozola and Brahim, the last three pending clarification of his future.
With the rest of the internationals still in action in Eurocup and Copa America (Hazard, Courtois, Vinicius, Militao, Casemiro and Valverde) it is becoming more difficult to plan for the start of the competition. It will be later when Ancelotti assess their preseason work margin before putting them out to compete. Courtois would be the most necessary when it comes to advancing your entry into the eleven, arrive when you arrive.