Arda Güler asks for a clue to finally take off as a Real Madrid player. The young Ottoman talent, who has been prevented by a trail of injuries from making his debut almost six months after his signing for the Chamartín club, seems to be ready to leave behind the ordeal experienced during all this time and could have his first minutes on Wednesday, taking advantage Mallorca’s visit to the Santiago Bernabéu in a duel corresponding to the nineteenth matchday of the League and with the honorary title of winter champion at stake.
The former Fenerbahçe player completed the first training session of the year without problems this Monday at the Valdebebas Sports City, where he once again left examples of that differential class that provokes the admiration of his teammates and that, without going any further, recently led to Nacho to proclaim at a press conference that the ’24’ has “incredible” potential.
The Ankara footballer has followed to the letter a meticulous plan drawn up by Real Madrid since Carlo Ancelotti revealed, after the Champions League match against Braga played on November 8 at the Santiago Bernabéu, that he was suffering a new physical mishap . Shortly after, the club’s medical services diagnosed the Turk with a tear in the quadriceps of his right leg that forced him to stop for the third time.
The desire to capture on the pitch those qualities that led Real Madrid to pay 20 million fixed euros plus another ten subject to compliance with a series of variables to get him out of Turkey played a trick on a footballer who had started his nightmare during the tour that the whites carried out in the United States during the preseason. An injury to the internal meniscus in his right knee then forced him to return to the Spanish capital for surgery in mid-August.
A month and a half later, and when everything pointed to his imminent return to the playing fields, an ailment in the rectus femoris on his left returned him to the infirmary. Recovered again, Ancelotti included him in the squad for the League match against Rayo Vallecano at the beginning of November and three days later he again assigned him a seat on the bench during the Champions League clash against Braga. The Italian thus tried to encourage him, because by then he already knew that the physicist had once again betrayed Arda Güler.
That third setback set off all the alarms, to the point of turning the organization chart of Real Madrid’s medical services upside down. The errors made in the tuning of the Turk were one of the triggers for the departure of the head of said services, the Croatian doctor Niko Mihic, a trusted man of Florentino Pérez, who was replaced by Felipe Segura. The recipe with Arda Güler, since then, was to go with maximum calm and take care of both the mind and the legs of the footballer, with a physique still in the process of formation, so that nothing would go wrong again. Because, as Ancelotti revealed, the string of injuries had “depressed” the player.
However, Real Madrid has never doubted the validity of the bet it made with Arda Güler. Aware of having a generational talent on his hands, he has given him the necessary space to recover sensations at the pace set by the Ottoman, who finally seems to see light at the end of the tunnel.
Vinicius and Carvajal are also ready
If nothing goes wrong on Tuesday, Arda Güler will be included in the squad for the match against Mallorca, for which Ancelotti will recover other troops. Vinicius is ready to be in the game, a month and a half after being injured with the Brazilian team. The coach will also be able to count on Carvajal, who had been in the dry dock for a month. This will not be the case, except as a surprise, for Camavinga, who already has his sights set on the Spanish Super Cup that will be played between January 10 and 14 in Saudi Arabia. The same happens with Mendy, in the final stretch of his recovery process. It should be remembered that Nacho must serve a one-match suspension after being sent off against Alavés on the last matchday, so Tchouaméni will form a duo with Rüdiger in the axis of the defense.
2024-01-01 17:33:55
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