Real Madrid complete Ferran Quetglas signing

La Liga heavyweights Real Madrid have reportedly reached an agreement to sign Ferran Quetglas in the summer transfer window.

According to a report by Spanish publication AS, Ferran Quetglas will move up the ladder in his youth career in the summer transfer window. The 16-year-old Spanish goalkeeping sensation will leave RCD Mallorca to move to Real Madrid after reaching an agreement to join Los Blancos.

Ferran Quetglas is one of the most promising young goalkeepers in Spain and Europe, having made progressed remarkably in age-group football in the last few years. A modern-day goalkeeper, the teenage wonderkid is comfortable with the ball at his feet while being a brilliant shot-stopper.

The 16-year-old has primarily represented the RCD Mallorca under-19 side this season but has also made a matchday squad for the first team this term. But Quetglas’s time at Mallorca will end in the summer transfer window when he will leave as a free agent before joining one of the biggest clubs in Europe, Real Madrid.

The interest from Real Madrid is hardly surprising, considering they are constantly looking for the brightest young players in Europe and beyond to bolster their youth setup and the reserve side. Other promising prospects, like Luis Guilherme, are also on Real Madrid’s radar.

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As for Quetglas, the 16-year-old Spanish goalkeeping sensation can be the long-term successor for Thibaut Courtois if he continues on his upward trajectory in the coming years. Courtois is 29 years old and will enter the final phase of his career in around half a decade.

By then, Quetglas will have turned 20, and the time could be right to groom him to take on the mantle from Courtois for the decade to follow. The teenage prodigy will join the Real Madrid Juvenil A side in the 2022/23 season, with Los Blancos set to install him as the first-choice goalkeeper in the coming campaign’s UEFA Youth League.

Playing in Europe has been a crucial factor that has helped Real Madrid reach an agreement to snap up Quetglas once his contract with Mallorca runs out in a few months. It will be interesting to see if the 16-year-old Spanish sensation makes quick progress and breaks into the first-team setup in due course.