Real Madrid tipped to sign Chelsea ‘genius’ and £60m Liverpool star | Football

Real Madrid ‘might be interested’ in signing key players from Chelsea and Liverpool, it has been claimed.

Los Blancos have enjoyed a promising start to the season under new manager Xabi Alonso, winning ten of their first 12 league games to climb to the top of the La Liga table.

Real Madrid also won their first three games of this season’s Champions League before losing 1-0 to Liverpool prior to the November international break.

Madrid are a powerhouse in the transfer market and will look to bolster Alonso’s squad in January and during next summer’s transfer window.

Ex-Chelsea winger Pat Nevin and ex-Liverpool midfielder Igor Biscan believe Real Madrid could turn to their former clubs to strengthen.

‘Real Madrid might be interested in Dominik Szoboszlai because his qualities are so good he can play in any team in the world,’ Liverpool Champions League winner Biscan told BoyleSports.

‘He is such a good player and is able to play in so many positions that any team in the world would probably want to have a player like him.

‘He can defend, he can really be the one to put pressure, to be aggressive, he can deliver from set pieces, he can attack the box.

‘He can do whatever he wants to do on the football pitch and be a threat, and run the whole day, and he’s also very good looking!’

Szoboszlai has made over 100 appearances for Liverpool since his £60m move from RB Leipzig in 2023.

The 25-year-old Hungary international was a key member of the Slot squad that won the Premier League last season.

Another player who ‘would interest’ Real Madrid is Chelsea midfielder Moises Caicedo, according to Nevin.

Caicedo has developed into one of the best midfielders in the world over the past 12 months and is arguably Chelsea’s most important player.

While Nevin believes Real Madrid would love to welcome Caicedo to the Bernabeu, he doubts the numbers involved would ‘work’ given Chelsea paid £115m to sign him from Brighton two years ago.

‘Caicedo is capable of playing in any team because he’s more than a destructive player, he’s an absolute genius defensively,’ Nevin told CasinoHawks.

‘Yes, he would interest Real Madrid, but I can’t see the numbers working. I’m struggling to see the numbers working.

‘Because if he’s bought for 100 million, or 115 million depending on what you hear about the add-ons, etc., how much is he going to have to spend to get him to give Chelsea a viable profit that they don’t feel as if they’ve lost one of their best, if not their best, player?

‘You’re talking 200 odd million. Unless you’re a forward scoring 30, 40 goals a season, that market, I’m not sure about.

‘Even though Enzo Fernandez and Caicedo were both bought for over 100 million and I have to say, it shocked a lot of us, that amount of money spent in that position. But to go further than that, I don’t know.’

Real Madrid’s first game back following the November international break is a league game against Elche, currently sitting in the bottom-half of La Liga.

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