3 Real Madrid Castilla players who should be in the first team next season

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Players of Real Madrid Castilla line up for a photo (Photo by Diego Souto/Quality Sport Images/Getty Images) /

At the end of the season, Real Madrid will be losing quite a few first-team players. Isco, Marcelo and Gareth Bale will be leaving the club as free agents, while Real Madrid will be hoping to part ways with players with massive wages. Eden Hazard, Mariano Diaz, Luka Jovic, Jesus Vallejo, and Dani Ceballos are some players who might leave the club at the end of the season.

So far, Kylian Mbappe seems like the only certain arrival in the summer. Names like Erling Haaland, Ryan Gravenberch and Aurélien Tchouaméni are also linked with a move to the Spanish capital, while Alvaro Odriozola is rumoured to return to the Spanish capital after a successful loan spell at Fiorentina.

It will still leave some empty positions in the first team to fill, and many Castilla players will be looking forward to filling those positions by earning a promotion to the first team.

Out of all the Castilla players, these are the three players who should be promoted to the first team for the next season.

Rafa Marin of Real Madrid Castilla (Photo by Angel Martinez/Getty Images) /

CB Rafa Marin

If Real Madrid decides to promote a centre back, it will be none other than Rafa Marin. The Spaniard is a 19-year-old youngster with a pretty decent season for La Fabrica so far.

Rafa Marin has a profile pretty similar to that of Eder Militao. Being a young centre back who stands tall at 1.91m of height, Rafa Marin is very dominant in the air, with great heading accuracy. He is fast and can easily track back when pressing higher up the pitch.

He has been very consistent in all the games he has played for Real Madrid Castilla this season, and with some promising sparks that he has shown while training with the first team, he has successfully impressed Carlo Ancelotti.

Los Blancos is looking to part ways with Jesus Vallejo which will empty a spot for a centre back in the team. With Real Madrid not wanting to sign a new centre back, even with the likes of free agents like Matthias Ginter or Antonio Rudiger, Rafa Marin seems the best one to bet on for the next season.

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