Overview
- Real Madrid completed the transfer for Marc Cucurella on Friday, July 24, and his registration now takes the club to the minimum eight locally trained players required to fill a 25‑player List A for UEFA competitions.
- Cucurella qualifies as locally trained because he spent key development years at Barcelona and other Spanish clubs, which matches UEFA’s rule about three seasons between ages 15 and 21.
- The signing also strengthens Mourinho’s options at left‑back after Cucurella helped Spain win the World Cup and saw his market valuation rise in Transfermarkt reports to about €60 million.
- The club’s compliance could still change if players such as Raúl Asensio leave or if Real Madrid choose to move qualifying players between List A and List B during final registrations.
- Under UEFA rules a List A squad is capped at 25 players with at least eight locally trained members and missing that quota reduces the squad size, so this move clears a key administrative hurdle for Madrid’s Champions League planning.