Liverpool will have to fight Real Madrid's dirty war in transfer window

Yes, it is true that Flamengo's 21-year-old João Gomes and Borussia Dortmund's 19-year-old Jude Bellingham are of great interest to the Santiago Bernabéu. And it is also true that Madrid have backed away - not in their interest, but in terms of a bid from the German club - from the possibility of bidding alongside Liverpool and United for the British player for 150 million euros.

They won't pay that for anyone (except, perhaps, Erling Haaland if it comes to that). However, given that United and Liverpool have also entered the fray for the Brazilian midfielder, Madrid are not going to get out of the fight for both of them so easily. Keep in mind that Florentino Perez has set his roadmap and he is not going to budge from it. On this plan, he thinks that, although the careers of Toni Kroos and Luka Modric are being extended in time, it is also true that the transition cannot be projected with them, as has been done with Carlos Henrique Casemiro, on players with no experience at the club.

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In this sense, Eduardo Camavinga and Aurélian Tchouameni are going in this direction, although the maturity of the former Monaco man, his success upon landing, is not the norm. Florentino and Ancelotti think that the replacements need time to adapt to the club and the sooner they move on, the better.

Well, with Marco Asensio and Dani Ceballos, two midfield assets, likely to leave in 2023, and the option of Kroos and Modric fading away, Florentino is planning the transition to the two French players and, at the same time, the Borussia Dortmund midfielder. Gomes is an alternative, an interesting possibility rather than an express desire to complete the midfield trident for the future and from the first minute alongside the French internationals.

Madrid ready for anything against Liverpool

In different media in England it has already been confirmed that United and Liverpool are willing to do anything for Bellingham and that Gomes, to a lesser extent in terms of figures, but not in terms of determination, is also on their agendas. Faced with this, Madrid want to impose their history and status, which always has an influence in these cases, but also warns: they have healthy accounts and a reserved power of millions that they can mobilise at any time. The fact that they have not signed many players does not mean that they do not have the capacity to do so.