The 2025/26 La Liga season has been a day of reckoning for Real Madrid, and while the bell has yet to toll for everyone who has disappointed the club this season, the summer 2026 transfer window will present another whirlwind of change for the Merengues - not just in the coach's seat.
But there have been a couple of bright spots for Real Madrid this season. One of them is Castilla prospect Thiago Pitarch, and though the defensive midfielder has lost his spot in the short term with Florentino Perez evidently not liking Alvaro Arbeloa giving the youth quarter the Zinedine Zidane treatment, the young man showed more than enough to make his mark.
He is still getting some reps in the Real Madrid first team, and he has proven that he belongs to such extent that the French axis of Aurelien Tchouameni and Eduardo Camavinga had better watch their backs.
Eduardo Camavinga is falling hard
Camavinga may need to regardless. Out of all the midfielders at Real Madrid - and, as a unit, they have vastly disappointed after the losses of legends Toni Kroos and Luka Modric - nobody besides Dani Ceballos is closer to leaving the club than the former Rennes sensation.
He may have even sealed his fate with his inane sending off against Bayern Munich to effectively cost Real Madrid the Champions League. And he has been dismal all season long, legitimately regression - not just simply failing to progress - in the midfield. Camavinga may not be a good fit for Real Madrid. Since Ceballos's stock already fell, Cama is the biggest loser in the middle of the park in Madrid.
Because the Real Madrid midfield has been so disappointing in this poor 2025/26 season and only making Madridistas rue Xabi Alonso's decision to axe Luka Modric, still thriving at AC Milan, the other big winner is actually in Serie A himself.
Nico Paz has been arguably the best player in the Italian top flight, and he is certainly the most important player to his own team's success - and that may be true of all of European football, not just Serie A.
Como are flirting with the Champions League because of Paz, whose all around brilliance in the middle of the park as a progressor, creator, and even defensive player should not be overshadowed by his incredible goal contributions as an assister and even scorer. Paz has proven, unequivocally, that he is ready for Real Madrid, and, on this form, he would probably be their best midfielder.
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