Zubimendi gives ‘quick and forceful response’ to Real Madrid after Perez ‘contacts’ Arsenal star

Arsenal midfielder Martin Zubimendi has pivoted down the chance to join Real Madrid in the summertime of 2026, according to a Spanish report.

Zubimendi has been one of Arsenal’s most uneventful gamers this summertime, consequent his €60million shifting from Real Sociedad in the summertime of 2025.

The Spain global is one of the first tags on the Arsenal teamsheet and has built a formidable participation wearing Declan Rice in the clinic of the park.

Zubimendi has scored 6 objectives and passed on 3 aids in 44 reinforces in with one voice rivals this period for Arsenal, that are premeditating to win the Premier League, the Champions League and the FA Mug after wasting the Carabao Mug last against Manchester Municipal last week.

It is well-documented that Xabi Alonso longed to indicator Zubimendi for Real Madrid when he was appointed the Spanish bar’s boss in the summertime of 2025.

Yet, Madrid president Florentino Perez did not observe Alonso’s pointer, wearing the previous Bayer Leverkusen boss at some point disunion behaviors wearing Los Blancos in January 2026.

Madrid have since become aware the significance of signing a top-amenity midfielder that can subdue the pace of the gallery.

Enzo Fernandez of Chelsea, Paris Saint-Germain star Vitinha and Manchester Municipal ace Rodri are totally 3 of the midfielders on Madrid’s radar.

A Spanish report has now disclosed that Madrid president Perez has correspondingly attempted for Zubimendi, rendering contact wearing his spokesperson to dissect if the Spaniard would clearly be eager on a shifting to Estadio Bernabeu.

Yet, Zubimendi has desperate not to vacate Arsenal for Madrid and schemes to boost his job at the Emirates Arena under boss Mikel Arteta.

According to the report, Madrid president Pérez has ‘fresh conversed to’ Zubimendi’s ‘spokesperson to convey that he would clearly now be willing to render a proposition to eliminate him from the Gunners’ team’.

Zubimendi has ‘passed on a fast and strong answers, rendering it readable that he is not soaked up in this chance’.

The midfielder ‘has no purpose of gaining away London in the short term and is ‘correspondingly awfully fulfilled wearing the chore at Arsenal’.

Zubimendi is currently wearing the Spain team, wearing his national team’s boss, Luis de la Fuente, claiming that the Arsenal star is the second most uneventful defensive midfielder in the earth after Rodri.

De la Fuente said: “After with one voice the hassles he went wearing, Rodri is ago at a high level.

“I’ve said in days gone by that he is the most uneventful in the earth, but correspondingly on those same occasions [when he was injured] that we are awfully promising.

“After with one voice, in that posture, the number 6 responsibility, we have the 2 most uneventful gamers in the earth: Rodri and Martin [Zubimendi].

“So I will acquire in advance of a inquiry you are arguably attending ask: can they tinker with each other? Of training course they can tinker with each other.

“We can tinker that way [with a double pivot] effortlessly well. In my hunch of football, they [Rodri and Zubimendi] might inhabit a comparable responsibility, but they are miscellaneous gamers wearing miscellaneous attributes.

“In reality, Martin is recovering right into the box more now and racking up objectives, but he correspondingly has the services of a positional player, wearing proportion and stellar critical realizations.

“Rodri has those same services also, so having them there supplies us counterclaim, that sort of structure. Yet at unchanged time, you have to bear in mind that lone 11 can beginning. After that you would clearly ask me: what around Pedri? And Fermin [Lopez]? And Fabian [Ruiz]?’”