The day Asencio was seen outside Madrid: “You don’t come”

• JL Calderón

Updated 03/28/2025 – 23: 50cet

Asencio premieres today the new contract with Real Madrid uniquely revealed by brandbut in 2023 a ‘strange’ distrustful before Alavés put it On the edge of your club departure. Thursday, December 21, 2023 Asencio was seen outside Real Madrid. That day he was about to make the trip he will make in two weeks to Vitoria to measure Alavés. It was going to be his First call With the first team after Ancelotti Included it in a list of 20 players, with several quarries on the casualties. But then the Mazazo arrived: “You don’t come”they communicated shortly before leaving. The defense saw how Tobias, Nico Paz, Fran González and Gonzalo They got on the bus towards the airport and he stayed on the ground. The dream became nightmare and Asencio left Valdebebas with the feeling that in Madrid it would be impossible to succeed and that he would have to check.

In the unexpected decision of Madrid, Asencio was in investigated for an alleged crime of dissemination of a sexual video, a controversy that had shaken the factory four months ago with three other youths involved. Asencio I was playing normally in Castilla and Ancelotti had included it in the call for the numerous casualties in defense, both in the first team (Carvajal, Mendy, Militao and Alaba) as in Castilla (Carrillo and Marvel)which reduced alternatives to reinforce. However, the final decision of the club was to get the footballer out of the expedition. The club told him that it was the best and that they wanted to protect him as much as possibleafter the call had generated a stir. The fact that the player was cited to declare in the Courts of Plaza de Castilla The day after the game and all this gave rise to a difficult decision to assimilate for Asencio. The player himself did not have them all with them and at any time he wanted to throw the bells on the flight until he looks on the plane. But that never happened because his bad omens were confirmed.

A train that thought would not happen again

Asencio had focused all the attention since two days before that game against Alavés last season, he was seen by first team training. Real Madrid began to prepare the last commitment of the year in MendizorozAy did it with the novelty of the presence in the training of the young central. The defense of Castilla aimed to be chosen by Ancelotti to reinforce a position in which it had been under minimum after serious alaba lesionthat linked to that of MilitaoI left the coach with Rüdiger and Nacho as the only two central available. And so it was. Asencio, then the central more in the form of Raúlentered the call with four other companions of Castilla. It was the deserved prize for a player who is being one of the sensations of the white subsidiary. But everything was twisted.

Asencio was very touched. He would continue playing normally with Castilla, but would not appear again for the first team. The player’s feeling is that this train had passed and that he was not going to return. In fact, the player’s agent began looking for an exit. It was not going to be difficult because there were many interested teams and Madrid watched his march with good, as long as the economic and contractual requirements were met to open the door. Something that did not happen. The preseason arrived And Madrid told him that he would travel to the United States Tour as part of the Canteanos group that would reinforce a diminished expedition of the first team. Vitoria’s ghosts overwhelmed and Asencio lived the days before the trip almost with anguishwith the fear of happening again. But on that trip it was … and the rest is history.