Real Sociedad wants to avoid the last-minute transfer rush of previous summers. The Basque club aims to have Pellegrino Matarazzo's squad complete before the last-minute rush. The sports management prioritizes the arrival of reinforcements for the defense and attack, while the future of other positions on the field will be conditioned by the possible departures that may be confirmed in the coming weeks and the decision of which players from the reserve team will be promoted to the first team. This planning is in the hands of Pellegrino Matarazzo, who will live his first season since the start after taking over the position in the winter market. For this transfer window, the second with Erik Bretos as sports director in charge, the intention is not to delay as much as in the precedents to bring the reinforcements requested by Matarazzo's technical staff and avoid the last-minute rush. In the summer of 2023, with Roberto Olabe as sports director, the left-back Hamari Traoré was announced as a new txuri-urdin player shortly after the end of the league championship, specifically on June 9. However, the rest of the incorporations of that year were delayed, with André Silva signing on August 2, 2023. Subsequently, the club closed the arrivals of Arsen Zakharyan on August 19, Kieran Tierney on August 27, and finally, the return of Álvaro Odriozola on September 1, 2023, coinciding with the last day of the market. The dynamic of late incorporations was repeated in a similar way during the summer market of 2024. The first player to join the blue-white project was the Catalan Sergio Gómez, whose contract was made official on July 12, 2024. A few days later, on July 21, 2024, Real Sociedad confirmed the signing of Javi López for the left-back position, while the midfielder Luka Sucic did not seal his connection until August 2, 2024. The operations for that season were not concluded until the last hours of the deadline for registering players, as the forwards Orri Óskarsson and Nayef Aguerd were not officially registered until August 30, 2024, on the last day of the summer transfer market.