Bayern Munich defender David Alaba is understood to have agreed a five-year contract with Real Madrid, which takes months of speculation about his future to an end.
The football world has been engrossed in Super League talks for the past 48 hours, but now that the highly controversial competition is about to collapse, Alaba’s future has immediately returned to the top of the gossip columns.
After being courted by a number of top European clubs – including Manchester City, Barcelona and Chelsea – Sky Germany reports that the Austrian has agreed to join Real Madrid on a contract that runs until 2026, although nothing has been signed at this stage. .
Sky sources: David Alaba has agreed on a five-year contract until 2026 with @realmadrid. Barcelona is no longer an option. The contract has not been signed yet but will take place in the coming weeks ?? ✅ #TransferUpdate @Sky_Torben @Sky_Marc pic.twitter.com/jo7DIVjO8g
– Max Bielefeld (@Sky_MaxB) April 20, 2021
Alaba has long been expected to join Los Blancos, where the 28-year-old previously expressed a desire to leave Bayern at the end of the season to seek a new challenge, while also expressing admiration for Real Madrid over.
If he is really on his way to the Spanish capital, Alaba will bring bags of trophy-winning experience – after winning everything there is to win in Germany and in Europe on several occasions.
A nine-time Bundesliga winner, Alaba has also won the Champions League in 2013 and 2020, as well as winning six DFB-Cup titles, five DFL-Supercup trophies and two FIFA Club World Cups.
In terms of what he will add to Real Madrid’s squad, Alaba are as versatile as they come and stand out at the world level in a number of different positions. A central midfielder in the trade – a position he holds for his national team Austria – he has spent the majority of his Bayern career in the left-back, while he has moved on to a top-class central defender for the past 18 months.
Alaba played a key role when Bayern won the Champions League 2020 | Pool / Getty Images
But it is the positional adjustments, as well as Bavaria’s complete dominance of German football, that have led Alaba to seek a new challenge.
In Spain, he has been commissioned to help Zinedine Zidane’s side regularly take on rivals Barcelona, and it looks like he will once again be challenging for Champions League awards – now that Florentino Perez’s Super League plans are popping up, in this really early stage, to go up in smoke.
