Next “traitor” next. Real Madrid alumnus Reguilón is heading to Atlético Madrid

To betray your club and move to a rival is something fans don’t like to see. Especially when you’ve been through the club’s academy, it makes the switch all the more spicy. Next up is left-back Sergio Reguilón.

Reguilón has never made any secret of the fact that he has white blood in his veins. He joined the academy of the White Ballet at the age of seven and has progressed through all categories to the A-team.

“It’s our feeling, don’t try to understand it,” Reguilón wrote on Twitter.

In the 2018-19 season, the young Real Madrid graduate fulfilled a dream. Coach Julen Lopetegui pulled him into the first team, where he made his Champions League debut against CSKA Moscow on October 2, 2018.

However, Lopetegui quit at the end of October and from November, Castilla coach Santiago Solari took over the team and brought Reguilón with him to the ákéc. And the young left-back’s life took a rapid turn.

Solari gave Reguilón a chance and the young Spaniard was the first to displace the legendary Marcelo from the starting line-up in ten years. In the end, he racked up 14 starts in La Liga, four in the Copa del Rey and four in the Champions League.

But unfortunately for Reguilón, Zinedine Zidane returned to the bench and put his faith in his favourite Marcelo once again. Moreover, Real Madrid brought in Ferland Mendy for €48 million in the summer and the youngster had to pack his bags. So he opted for a loan spell at Sevilla.

And it worked out great, Reguilón quickly integrated himself into the starting line-up in Andalusia and delivered great performances. His combativeness made him quite popular with the fans at the Ramón Sanchéz Pizjuán, and Reguilón eventually helped Sevilla win the Europa League in the 2019/20 season.

This led to his return to Madrid in the summer, but he was only the third full-back behind Mendy and Marcelo. Thus, Real had to sell him to Tottenham, while Reguilón did not part with his grudge, quite the contrary.

“I have defended your emblem since I was seven years old. Real Madrid will always be my home,” Reguilón said at the transfer.

For his first two seasons in London, he was a regular under both Mourinho and Conte. But in the summer, there was surprising news. The Italian strategist no longer counts on Reguilón, and he can now look for an engagement. In fact, Conte prefers the Perisic-Sessegnon pairing for his left half-back position, with Ben Davies also available.

Three traitors

And so Reguilón returns to Madrid. Not to the Santiago Bernabéu, but to the Wanda Metropolitano. He will thus be the third Real Madrid alumnus who has recently swapped the white jersey for the red and white.

The first was Álvaro Morata. The Los Blancos alumnus left for Juventus after a successful stint in the A-team, then returned to Real Madrid and after another great year, left for Chelsea. However, he lasted only two seasons there and moved to Atlético Madrid. Logically, Real Madrid fans didn’t like this at all and gave Morata the nickname “MoRata” (rata = rat in Spanish).

Another was midfielder Marcos Llorente, who moved to the east of Madrid a year later. However, the fans don’t blame him so much, as he didn’t get a proper opportunity at Real and as a midfielder he had an extremely difficult time behind the foursome of Casemiro, Kroos, Modric, Isco.

Reguilón becomes the third Real Madrid offspring to head to the Wanda Metropolitano in recent years. It must be said, however, that each time these are players that Los Blancos are not interested in, this is not a transfer of stars. Still, for fans, the move to a rival is incomprehensible.

Source: MARCA