Friday, June 13, 2025, 15:24
Franco Mastantuono is already official, Real Madrid player. The Chamartín club announced this Friday the signing of the Argentinian diamond, which in its 17 years became one of the most promising figures of world football. The Still River Plate Player, a team with which he will play the threatening world cup in the club, will land in the Spanish capital on August 14, the day he will reach the majority of the majority, and will be linked to the ‘White House’ during the next six seasons, until 30 June 2031.
Real Madrid will pay River Plate the clause of 45 million euros, to which we have to add another 18 million taxes to have the Mastantuono services, which between 2019 and 2024 in the quarry of the Buenos Aires Club formed and is part of the first team during the 2024-2025 season. In February 2024 he became the youngest score in the history of River Plate, a team with which he won an Argentinian Super Cup. At the age of 17 he is also the youngest player to play an official match with the Argentinian national team during his history, after debuting with the Albiceleste on 6 June in a meeting against Chile that is eligible for the World Cup 2026.
Mastantuono will arrive in Real Madrid after playing 61 games with the River Plate shirt, in which his participation in the club World Cup will have to add. He scored ten goals and spread seven assists with the elastic of the millionaires.
Although the name of Mastantuono was on the Real Madrid radar for months and the signing would end earlier, it was the accession of the PSG action that gave a definitive boost to the operation. Anxious to lose the jewel because of the great importance of the Parisian club, sent Real Madrid Argentina to the head of his international collection department, June Calafat, architect in his day of signing other pearls such as Vinicius, Rodrygo, Valverde or Arda Güler, to accelerate a signing with this Friday. In this way Mastantuono becomes the third reinforcement of the new Real Madrid of Xabi Alonso, after the arrivals of Centraal Dean Huijsen and the right-hand side Alexander-Arnold.
A profile similar to Arda Güler
The arrival of Mastantuono is part of the emerging Talent collection strategy that Real Madrid launched years ago to compete with the so-called club states and had become a strategic priority for the entity that the Florentino Pérez, which has deposited a lot of hope of an Arginetic opportunity for a Historetical Public Prosecution Service and he has the pressure of an Arginetical Public Procedure for a Riversthetic Public Processing. River plate chaired.
Fast and with great capacity for Dribbel, Mastantuono usually plays in the river as the right side to cut and take advantage of his great shot with left -handed or as a medium. It also stands out for his skills on a stop-ball, a quality that serves him a few months ago to become the youngest player who scored in a ‘superclassic’ of Argentinian football thanks to a purpose of directly free from outside the area that was the key to the river plate to impose Boca Juniors 2-1.
Mastantuono will give the aroma of Argentinian football back to a Real Madrid who had not had a football player from that country since the departure of Ángel di María in 2014, but had those big legends from that football, with Alfredo di Stéfano at the head of all. Moreover, it will not occupy extra community square because it has the Italian passport.
From now on, Xabi Alonso will have to develop into this Bud Crack that he went to tennis, but who eventually changed sport, moved by his passion for football to start a race in which he burned the stages at Vertigo speed, until he became one of the players in recent years in Argentinian football. From August he will have to get used to life with the pressure of Santiago Bernabéu and winning a position in the middle of the great competition he will have in the center of the Field of Real Madrid, where his profile reminds a lot of Arda Güler.
