{"id":15554,"date":"2025-06-13T19:10:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T13:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=606527"},"modified":"2025-06-13T19:10:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T13:40:45","slug":"official-franco-mastantuono-joins-real-madrid-on-a-6-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/official-franco-mastantuono-joins-real-madrid-on-a-6-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Official: Franco Mastantuono joins Real Madrid on a 6-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Franco Mastantuono has officially joined Real Madrid on a 6-year deal until June 2031 from River Plate. PSG who were in contacts since the start had missed the chance to sign him as Real Madrid entered the race and the player chose the Los Blancos. The deal has been made official and the release clause of $45m will be paid in installments<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid have officially announced the signing of highly-rated Argentine midfielder Franco Mastantuono from River Plate. The 16-year-old sensation has signed a six-year contract with Los Blancos, keeping him at the club until June 2031.<\/p>\n<p>Paris Saint-Germain had shown strong interest and maintained contact with Mastantuono\u2019s camp from the beginning. However, the French giants missed out as Real Madrid made a late but decisive move. The youngster ultimately chose to join the Spanish capital club, known for nurturing top South American talents like Vin\u00edcius Jr., Rodrygo, and Endrick.<\/p>\n<p>The deal, now made official, includes a $45 million release clause which Real Madrid will pay in installments. Mastantuono is expected to initially join Real Madrid Castilla before being gradually integrated into the senior squad.<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid\u2019s successful pursuit of Mastantuono further underlines their long-term vision of securing the brightest young talents in world football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Franco Mastantuono has officially joined Real Madrid on a 6-year deal until June 2031 from River Plate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":36720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3796,4009,3919,447,266,4008,3608],"class_list":["post-15554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-football","tag-franco-mastantuono","tag-la-liga","tag-psg","tag-real-madrid","tag-river-plate","tag-xabi-alonso"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}