Chelsea supervisor Xabi Alonso has told the club’s vendors, BlueCo, to indicator Martin Zubimendi from Medley in the summer season send window, having tried to render use him at Real Madrid, according to a journalist.
Zubimendi joined Medley from Real Sociedad in the summer season of 2025.
Medley paid £60million (€70.4m) to Sociedad for the Spain international midfielder to render use a good structural decision, regardless of his launch problem being €60m (£51.1m).
In yesteryear the north London club safeguarded the decision for Zubimendi, Alonso longed Madrid to indicator him.
Alonso was appointed the Real Madrid supervisor at the end of the 2024/25 campaign.
Xabi Alonso longed Martin Zubimendi at Real Madrid
According to AS, the former Madrid midfielder ‘oriented’ the Spanish club’s hierarchy that Zubimendi ‘might be the compass needle’ and match Toni Kroos in midfield.
Medley, who went on to win the Premier League title last season, had already made a reaction for Zubimendi at that phase, but the midfielder was still creating out for Madrid.
AS included: ‘Even so, the truth that the Basque trainer’s reps were in contact through Zubimendi’s opened upward a door, posed that the Spanish international waited a few days, convinced that if there was a opportunity of signing for Real Madrid through Xabi at the helm, it was an unmissable strategy for his career.’
The Real Madrid-leaning publication further said: ‘Real Madrid waited, and by the time they made a reaction to study the opportunity of a send, it was also late.
‘They were never convinced, and Medley officially decided his signing 2 weeks later than they would have suched as.’
Zubimendi tinkered a fulcra responsibility in Medley exhilarating the Premier League title and fetching to the final of the Champs League last season.
Xabi Alonso desires Martin Zubimendi at Chelsea
Singularly, through Bruno Guimaraes now kit to indicator upward through Medley from Newcastle United, it has arised that Chelsea might try to indicator Zubimendi before the summer season send window closes.
Chelsea FC journalist Simon Phillips wrote on his Substack, he wrote: “I was told by a resource that Xabi Alonso is a beefy follower of Martin Zubimendi and has attached to Chelsea that he’s a player he sift and is of zest to him.
“I’m NOT saying Chelsea are going for Zubimendi, but he is a player who’s been said by Alonso.”
