Free agents Real Madrid should target in the 2024 summer transfer window
Real Madrid, the institution that has had two separate eras of , are indelibly linked to big-money signings.
No club has broken the world transfer record more often than the Spanish giants but this current iteration of Madrid has been more savvy than flashy in recent windows. Carlo Ancelotti's two first-choice centre-backs at the start of the season, Antonio Rudiger and David Alaba, both arrived on free transfers.
As players across the globe enter the final six months of their contracts, Madrid — and any other thrifty suitors — are legally allowed to negotiate a potential free transfer this summer.
Here are some of the fee-less figures that Madrid could target in 2024.
Real Madrid have been chasing after Kylian Mbappe since he was a teenager. The club's first attempts to woo the young Frenchman included inviting him to the Spanish capital where Zinedine Zidane would drive him to Madrid's training ground in a sports car.
Mbappe was so close to joining Madrid in the summer of 2022 that EA Sports prepped a version of the cover for FIFA 23 with the Paris Saint-Germain forward decked in all white.
The highly sought-after 25-year-old formally told PSG that he would not extend his contract beyond June 2024 last summer but admitted in January that nothing has been decided. Fearful of being turned down once again, Madrid have reportedly set Mbappe a deadline for mid-January. Although, the saga will no doubt run on longer.
If Madrid can finally, mercifully, end their interminable flirtation with Mbappe, they could dip back into the free agent market to source his perfect foil.
When comparing his role in the French national team to his duties at PSG, Mbappe claimed that he had «more freedom» alongside AC Milan's Olivier Giroud. «The
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