{"id":402794,"date":"2026-04-17T04:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T04:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/402794\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T04:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T04:13:11","slug":"real-madrid-barcelona-monitoring-manchester-united-academy-prodigy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/402794\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid, Barcelona monitoring Manchester United academy prodigy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Valdepenas is regarded as one of the most promising young prospects to have come through the Real Madrid youth academy in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>The teenage defender, who can play at left-back and centre-back, made his first-team debut for the Merengues earlier this season under Xabi Alonso, starting in a La Liga game against Alaves in December 2025.<\/p>\n<p>That remains his only first-team appearance, though, with the 19-year-old since returning to Castilla, where he has been playing regularly.<\/p>\n<p>AC Milan cool interest, but Eintracht Frankfurt want Valdepenas<\/p>\n<p>Given his talent and potential, a number of clubs across Europe are pushing to sign Victor Valdepenas, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marca.com\/radio\/2026\/04\/16\/moretto-desvela-futuro-rudiger-ceballos-claves-operacion-bastoni.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Matteo Moretto on Radio MARCA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>AC Milan have been one of the teenage defender\u2019s suitors for some time now, although as per the report, they have significantly cooled down their interest in him.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/deportivo-alaves-v-real-madrid-cf-laliga-ea-sports-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Victor Valdepenas of Real Madrid\" class=\"wp-image-87341\"  \/>Victor Valdepenas is attracting plenty of interest. (Photo by Juan Manuel Serrano Arce\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>The Rossoneri are understood to be not in favour of Real Madrid\u2019s policy of selling only 50% of the player\u2019s rights and retaining the remaining 50% \u2013  a strategy they have used with several departing youth players in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Milan\u2019s interest cooling off, Valdepenas is still being pursued by two other clubs strongly, one of whom happen to be Bundesliga side Eintracht Frankfurt.<\/p>\n<p>According to Moretto, the German outfit it seen as the closest in terms of chances to sign the 19-year-old Real Madrid starlet.<\/p>\n<p>Valdepenas has a contract with Real Madrid until 2029, and is understood to be <a href=\"https:\/\/madriduniversal.com\/real-madrid-safeguard-future-by-tying-down-latest-gem-with-e50m-release-clause\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">protected by a \u20ac50 million release clause<\/a> following his first-team debut.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, Premier League giants <a href=\"https:\/\/madriduniversal.com\/battle-for-real-madrid-prodigy-heating-up-amid-interest-from-arsenal-dortmund-and-milan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Arsenal have also shown interest in the defender, as have Borussia Dortmund<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victor Valdepenas is regarded as one of the most promising young prospects to have come through the Real&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,177511,917,3166,120300,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-402794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-jj-gabriel","11":"tag-manchester-united","12":"tag-real-madrid","13":"tag-real-madrid-news","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}