Rudiger has let his contract expire this summer and has made the leap to Santiago Bernabeudespite the great interest in the German by a large number of teams from all over Europe.
In January, there was interest from Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham, while Rudiger was not short of suitors on the continent, with Barcelona, Bayern Munich, RB Leipzig, Paris Saint-Germain, Juventus and Inter expressing their interest. desire to sign the central.
While not all of those sides made concrete offers, Rudiger stressed that Real were the only club that ever had a chance to convince him to leave Chelsea.
“It is true that there were many conversations”, he told Mark. “But if I’m honest, I only considered Madrid or Chelsea.“
“The first time I heard about Madrid… imagine. It was like… wow. The first time they contacted me was in September or October, I think. A club like this doesn’t call very often and it was amazing.”
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Antonio Rudiger held talks with Carlo Ancelotti only the transfer from Real Madrid was completed
Rudiger went on to reveal that he did not speak to manager Carlo Ancelotti until after his move to Real was finalized, but admitted that his conversation with the boss only made him more excited to get to work.
“It was a welcome conversation after everything was already done,” Rudiger continued. “He told me that everyone was very happy to have me at Madrid and that makes me very happy.“
“It’s clear that Ancelotti is one of the people who makes Real Madrid very strong, but it’s not just him. there are [Karim] Benzema, Tony Kroos [Luka] Modric, Casemiro… Ancelotti told me that they were all very happy and that makes me proud.“
“It also makes me see that I’ve done well in the last three years and it gives me a lot of motivation to do even better at Real Madrid”.
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