David Alaba has not had the most fortunate time since moving to Real Madrid from Bayern Munich a couple years ago. Initially a staple of Los Blancos’ defense, he tore his ACL in December of last year and has not featured since. Bayern even helped him out, but there were reports of him not playing ever again. That has since been shut down since the 32-year-old Austrian has not considered retirement and Carlo Ancelotti has not considered a winter signing:
If we find an ideal player for Real Madrid, we won’t rule out a signing. However, finding the ideal player is not that simple.
Alaba will return, as we believe he is recovering well and will soon be working with the team. Therefore, we are currently not thinking about a signing.
– Sky Sports journo Florian Plettenberg (@Plettigoal)
Alaba was one of the few academy boys at Bayern (and arguably across Europe’s big teams) that made it big and seeing him retire at this stage (like Raphael Varane just did last month) would’ve been a devastating way to bow out of the sport.
