Last season, Alexis Mac Allister was one of the key players in Liverpool’s successful push to secure the Premier League title, but 2025-26 hasn’t gone as well as the player or anyone at the club would have hoped. As with many Reds, form has been a struggle, and Mac Allister’s has often mirrored that of the squad writ large.
Rather oddly, that’s a situation that has led to early season speculation regarding his future largely fading, with early autumn chatter about potential Real Madrid interest in the 27-year-old
Argentine midfielder largely gone by the time the new year rolled around. With two years left on his Liverpool deal this summer, though, it’s clear there are questions about his future that will need answering.
As a result, reports out of Spain are beginning to rekindle the Madrid talk, with the player’s age and contract status making 2026 a potentially decisive summer for all involved. For Liverpool, allowing Mac Allister to go from two years left to one year in the summer of 2027 would largely remove their negotiating power.
Meanwhile for Mac Allister, if there is a dream of a big move to one of the Spanish giants while he’s in his prime, there will come a point where if the transfer doesn’t get done, the player’s age will start to make that difficult if not impossible—and that point in all likelihood will arrive either when the transfer window slams shut this summer or, at the latest, next.
For their part, Madrid are said to have ruled out a move for Manchester City’s Rodri, in part due to the player now being 29 years old, and are looking younger with PSG’s Vitinha and Crystal Palace’s Adam Wharton—also a rumoured Liverpool target—having been talked up of late as options by the rumour mongers.
