It is entirely possible that both players remain at the club until at least 2026, although there is work being done on a right-back signing for next summer – Liverpool’s Trent Alexander-Arnold is one of the names that has been mentioned.
There is no rush with the contract situations of Carvajal and Lucas. In the former’s case, Real Madrid do not intend to make their case, with the decision being entirely left up to Carvajal, as reported by Diario AS.
Carvajal has shown that he is more than capable of continuing at the top level for another few years, and Real Madrid will still see him as their starter if a big-name signings is not made in 2025. As things stand, it would be a major surprise if he were not to continue into next season at least.
Former Real Madrid striker Robinho 'fails with appeal to reduce prison sentence'
Former Manchester City and Real Madrid footballer Robinho has reportedly failed with his latest bid to reduce his prison sentence.
He has already served the first six months of a nine-year term for his part in a gang rape in Italy more than 10 years ago, when he was playing for AC Milan.
Robinho, whose real name is Robson de Souza, was one of six men who were found guilty of assaulting an Albanian woman in an Italian nightclub in January 2013.
He was found guilty in Italy in 2017 but his punishment was delayed by several appeals.
The 40-year-old was eventually handed a jail term in Brazil in March, following a landmark supreme court ruling, after Italian prosecutors felt he should serve his sentence in his homeland following an unsuccessful attempt to extradite him.
Robinho is one of Brazil's more affluent prisoners and is currently in Tremembe's Penitentiary II, which is much less overcrowded than many jails in the country and has even been dubbed a 'celebrity prison'.
The former football star - who was once the most expensive signing by an English club after joining City from Madrid for £32.5million in 2008 - has a team of lawyers trying to get his punishment reduced.
However, according to Portal Leo Dias, Robinho's lawyers have failed - for the second time since he was sentenced - in their attempts to get his crime reclassified from 'heinous' to 'common'.
In Brazil, 'heinous' crimes do not qualify for appeals. Robinho's lawyers have argued that the rape should be considered 'common' because that is how it is categorised in Italy, where the offence took place.
Robinho's football career ended in 2020. But The Sun reported last month that he had taken on a new job in prison.
The report claimed that he was learning new skills in basic electronics, including TV and radio repair, as part of a programme provided by the Brazilian Universal Institute to prepare inmates for life after their release.
Lawyer Mario Rosso Vale was quoted as saying: 'Robinho is keeping his head down and quietly getting on with it... he is being an exemplary inmate and has had no issues with other prisoners.
'They even gave him some football boots, once he was integrated, to join in the games during recreation time.
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