Real Madrid has made official this Saturday morning the signing of the Spanish International Central Dean Huijsen (Amsterdam; 20 years) by which he had intensified the efforts in recent days. The operation was already very directed on Thursday, when the white club agreed with the Bournemouth to pay the 50 million pound clause (about 59 million euros) to free him from the contract that linked the English club until 2030. The footballer had already made clear his willingness to move to Bernabéu leaving aside the offers of other premier clubs, such as Chelsea and Liverpool. Only the final details of the player’s contract and the commissions of the intermediaries, his father, Don Huijsen, and agent Ali Barat, who finished negotiating since Thursday in Madrid, were left.
Huijsen has signed a contract for the next five seasons that begins a month earlier than usual. He will join Madrid on June 1, when Xabi Alonso also arrives, on time to play the Club World Cup, which begins on June 14 in the US, and where the team debuts on the 18th.
The central has taken this course in the Premier, after paying off the Juventus and finding more opportunities under Mourinho’s orders in Rome. The English club stressed the importance of its contribution in a farewell statement: “It has been fundamental in the historical season of the club, in which the Andoni Iraola team has already exceeded its greater number of points in the Premier League.” This course has played 2,714 minutes between the League, the FA Cup and the League Cup, in which it has scored three goals, to Tottenham, Manchester United and Arsenal.
That takeoff also found its echo in the Spanish team. Although he was born in the Netherlands, of Dutch parents, Huijsen grew from the age of five in Malaga and has always said that Malaga and Spanish feels. However, the lower categories of the Oranje were the first to recruit. He played with them in Sub 16, the Sub 17 and the Sub 18, but when the Royal Spanish Football Federation raised the option to play with them, the Red chose. He has been common for the Sub 21 of Santi Denia, although he did not participate with her in the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024 because the club he belonged to, Juventus, did not agree to free him, something he was not obliged to since it was not an official FIFA event.
But it has always been under the surveillance of Luis de la Fuente. In March, when Spain played the pass to the final to four from the Nations League, the coach recruited him for the absolute when Iñigo Martínez fell out of the list due to an injury. Huijsen was on the bench of Kuip in Rotterdam when Cubarsí was injured, and from the source made him debut against the selection of his country of origin, with an audience that booed him in each action. He showed quality and personality that night, in the first leg of the tie, and started a few days later in the return in Mestalla, where the red achieved its pass to the semifinal of the Nations, which will be played on June 5 against France in Stuttgart. That will delay its incorporation into training with Xabi Alonso.
Huijsen – the most expensive defense in the history of Madrid, after the 50 million militao in 2019 – is the first hiring that Madrid makes official as part of its plan to reinforce the battered zaga, already with a view to the imminent World Cup. They also have closed the signing of the right side of Liverpool Trent Alexander-Arnold, although it has not yet closed their arrival on time for the tournament. They also work to incorporate Benfica Álvaro Carreras’s left side.
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