A Hidden ‘9’ for Real Madrid: A New Alternative to Haaland and Mbappé Emerges

Juni Calafat has unearthed reports about this forward

The board led by Florentino Pérez appears to have found a new player for Juni Calafat to keep an eye on, but the head of the White’s scouting department acknowledges the player mentioned to him recently.

The focus at Valdebebas has shifted to Old Trafford. Despite the dire situation on the field under Erik ten Hag’s management, the Dutch coach continues to extract results from his top players. One player who seems to have regained lost ground during the first half of the season has reappeared on the radar of the Madrid entity.

Because the Merengues’ executives have suggested to Juni Calafat to track Rasmus Hojlund… once again. The Danish forward made a record transfer to the Red Devils from Atalanta less than a year ago: his start as a Manchester United player in the early stages of the current season left much to be desired.

But Hojlund is proving, with his last five games, that he could live up to the over €70 million that the Manchester executives paid for him last summer. With seven goal contributions, five goals, and two assists, Hojlund enters the debate of who should arrive at the Santiago Bernabéu dressing room to definitively replace Karim Benzema.

Consistency Needed The Danish forward needs to maintain that good run in front of goal for Real Madrid to consider him a reliable ‘plan B’ to Kylian Mbappé and Erling Haaland. Hojlund’s work went largely unnoticed until he began to produce numbers that have returned him to the same position he was in last summer: the Whites’ scouts will not lose sight of him.

That is the great virtue that the chosen one to replace Karim Benzema in the Madrid attack should have. With Vinícius, Rodrygo, and Jude Bellingham as an almost unstoppable attacking trio, the striker who arrives at the Santiago Bernabéu dressing room beyond the two ‘galácticos’ will have to work very hard and build on Hojlund’s good run to earn a place in Carlo Ancelotti’s starting eleven.