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Arda Güler

#15Attacking midfielder / Winger

Arda Güler is Real Madrid's next great talent. The Turkish midfielder arrived at the white club in the summer of 2023 aged 18, in a €20 million operation from Fenerbahçe, as one of the most anticipated signings of the season in Europe.

His Madrid debut was tortuous: a meniscus injury kept him off the pitch during the first months of his first season. But when he returned, quality was immediate: Champions League goals from impossible positions, game vision that the specialist press compared to players of a previous generation.

Güler is a player of unique characteristics in the context of modern football: technical, intelligent, with an exceptional shooting quality from outside the area. His style recalls the classic European attacking midfielder — influenced by both the Turkish school and his formative years at Fenerbahçe — and contrasts with the more physical and dynamic profile of the rest of Madrid's current midfielders.

Euro 2024 with Turkey was his definitive introduction to the wider public: anthology goals in the group stage that placed him among the tournament's best young players. MadridFlow follows his evolution with the attention Güler's talent deserves.

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