Dean Huijsen: The race to sign the centre-back is on

Real Madrid is positioning itself knowing that the player who cost Bournemouth 15 million has quadrupled his market value.

After his performance with the Spanish national team, Dean Huijsen now has the license to dream, to continue taking steps forward in his career, which will lead to his joining a big club next summer. His teammate Justin Kluivert said on Radio MARCA after the match at Mestalla: "Huijsen won't be with us next season ." The team in question is Bournemouth , and they paid € 15 million for the 19-year-old, a risky but profitable gamble given that his price has now quadrupled.

What the former Valencia player said is evident, and it is evident from what he showed in his first appearance with the team managed by Luis de la Fuente, demonstrating that neither the atmosphere (an entire stadium against him) nor the responsibility of having to win for 120 minutes of play can defeat a player who has demolished everything put in front of him.

For many years, the phrase "born to play for Real Madrid" has been used when the club crosses a player's path, and if the player responds like Huijsen did in this double clash against the Netherlands, the phrase resonates everywhere. MARCA is in a position to confirm that the Bournemouth center-back has impressed, not the coaches, because they already knew what he was capable of, but the directors of the Real Madrid club, although they are not the only ones. The race to sign him has begun.

At Valdebebas, they haven't discovered the Dutch-born center-back yet. Not at all. Before he even appeared with the Spanish national team, reports already pointed to a more than interesting player . He's confirmed this throughout the season in the Premier League, but his explosion with the European champions has confirmed what had already been suggested in his matches with Andoni Iraola's team.

It's true that Real Madrid still has many unknowns to resolve regarding the center-back position, but the moves made in recent weeks make it clear that they don't want to be left behind in the career of a Spanish player with a decade and a half of top-level football ahead of him. All the messages sent by Huijsen also indicate that he wants to play for Real Madrid, a detail that hasn't gone unnoticed at the Madrid club.

In this central defensive landscape for Real Madrid, the doubts center on where Alaba and Militao will be . If the former wants, he'll stay, and the latter must clear up the mystery of his knee surgery, the second in just over fifteen months. There's absolute confidence in the Brazilian. The other doubt points to Rüdiger , although whenever he's been called up from Saudi Arabia, he's always been considered for a later date. He needs to regain his best physical form, but he's a guarantee. Finally, there's the potential of the youth academy, and not just Asencio. Joan Martínez, Jacobo Ramón, Aguado, Rivas... a lot of good stuff.

The center-back has landed on his feet in the elite, as he's demonstrated in the Premier League and made clear in his debut as a full international. He's confident, confident, decisive, and has game vision, capable of assisting Lamine when the match was at its most difficult.