Arnold bucked the trend of British Real Madrid arrivals delivering stilted bursts of Spanish at their official unveiling with a surprisingly fluent opening speech.After endless months of speculation surrounding this transfer—which turned out to not be free—the former Liverpool full back was finally presented with his new Madrid squad number (and name) in the Spanish capital on Thursday lunchtime.

Trent Alexander-Arnold will be wearing the number 12 shirt for the Spanish giants.

“I’m very excited to be here and can’t wait to get started,” Huijsen said.

Dean Huijsen speaks about his move to Real Madrid and whether he wants to wear the No. 4 jersey.

Huijsen for his part put pen to paper on terms with Real Madrid last month, after Florentino Pérez and co. made the call to activate the 20-year-old’s Bournemouth release clause.

The FIFA Club World Cup is here and, if you’re like us, well, you don’t know what to make of it. But the fact of the matter is, it’s a summer football tournament featuring some of the best teams across the globe.

new Real Madrid manager Xabi Alonso has announced the squad list of players he will be taking to the USA this week for the FIFA Club World Cup.

Real Madrid president Florentino Perez was the driving force behind this, as he believed a poor Club World Cup would add early and unnecessary pressure on to Alonso for the start of the 2025-26.