Kubo makes up his mind

Take Kubo is already getting used to the idea that, one more year, he will not be able to be part of the Real Madrid first team. The 21-year-old Japanese, who arrived at Real Madrid in 2019, has spent his three seasons with a white contract from loan to loan. His idea for this coming 2022-23 academic year was to try his luck in the first team, aware that his initial role would be that of a substitute who can enter the rotation, but wanting to learn by training every day with the best. However, a bureaucratic tangle forces him into a new loan.

The nationalization of Vinicius, which started in 2020, when the Brazilian completed two years as a resident in Spain, is still stopped. The idea was that he would have been ready for this course that just ended, but the pandemic caused a bottleneck in management that continues to be felt. At Real Madrid they take it for granted that the paperwork will not come to fruition until 2023, so Madrid’s three non-EU places are still occupied by Vinicius, Militao and Rodrygo; The last two have also started the process, but they did so a year later than Vinicius, so the delay in both cases will be even greater.

In the case of Kubo, nationalization is not an option: for the Japanese, the time of residence in Spain uninterruptedly to be eligible for citizenship is 10 years, of which Kubo barely has three. The Japanese requires a non-community place and currently there is none available, which has generated some frustration in the extreme, although it is a well understood rage: he knows that it is a bureaucratic problem in which Madrid is not to blame, it is a stroke of bad luck that condemns him to a new assignment.

La Real is still behind Kubo

Of course, in this case, Madrid wants a loan for Kubo to a higher-level team, to start testing him in larger challenges and, furthermore, so that he enters a team with a more attacking and possession court, schemes in which that the Japanese is much more likely to fit in easily. After his first loan spell at Mallorca, which paid off quite remarkably, Kubo was already tried to fit into a team at the top of the table with his loan to Villarreal. However, he hardly had any chances; Emery never finished the words he conveyed to the player about the role he intended to give him, since he ended up counting on other players from the youth academy, such as Yeremi Pino.

Now comes another attempt to dress Takefusa Kubo as txuri-urdin, the Real Madrid player for whom Real Sociedad negotiated two summers ago and ended up at Villarreal, and also a year ago, but he opted for Real Mallorca. the japanese player It is an old wish of the Football Director of the San Sebastian clubwho has always trusted his level and his progression, so he has returned to ask about his situation to the entity chaired by Florentino Pérez and to the agents of the Japanese footballer, who is looking for a way out of the complicated moment he is going through.

Will be the third time that Real Sociedad is interested in a summer transfer market for Kubo and that he tries to recruit him for the San Sebastian club. Roberto Olabe continues to trust a lot in his level, in his progression and in his future, convinced that he will end up exploding and being a great footballer.