At Real Madrid don’t feel like transfers until it is not clear when and how a season will end until August with the Champions. Something surprising could happen. Florentino Pérez proposes not to hire and quarantines the different names that advise it to reinforce a squad that has an excess of players: a total of 37. To sign you have to comply with a series of rules: incorporate footballers who improve what there is, that the expense involves an investment and output those who do not fit into the project. To these parameters we must add the crisis scenario in which football remains as a consequence of the decrease in income caused by the coronavirus. We could attend something unusual. A summer in which Florentino refuses to make signings.
“We have done our homework and we are well covered”, is the version of the Real Madrid when they refer to club assets. Signing for signing does not enter the plans of the president of Real Madrid until the competitions are finished and a balance of the collective and individual performance can be made. The President is cautious. Florentino would spend summers, like the one in 2009, in which he made eight hires and spent almost 255 million euros on do not open the box. That 2009 he pulled the cannons with Cristiano Ronaldo (96 million), Kaká (65), Benzema (35), Xabi Alonso (34.5), Raúl Albiol (15), Álvaro Negredo (5), Arbeloa (4) and Granero ( 4). Plus the signing of the Chilean coach Manuel Pellegrini (3 million euros). Last season, when he signed Militao ($ 50 million), hiring spending exceeded 1,200 million euros in its second stage.
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From everything to nothing. From the checkbook to austerity. This is what can happen at Real Madrid until they are no longer certain of the economic recession and the reality of the new transfer market. How long can this financial and health crisis last? How will it affect budgets? It is necessary to go deeper and also clarify the situation of the innumerable group of players who are on loan, for whom they are willing to listen to offers and those who have not proven to be at the same level of the club’s requirement. In this last group is the striker Luka Jovic. It is the main concern at Real Madrid. What to do with the Serb who has returned injured from his country and raises questions about his adaptation problems. The main need is to hit a striker. For the last two months the Norwegian Haaland’s name has been playing, but the boy is clear that his priority is to play regularly and in Madrid they cannot guarantee it. Luka Jovic, for which 60 million euros were paid, would be the great beneficiary of the ‘closure’ in the expense of new additions.
Newcastle appears on stage
If spending is frozen, the puzzle to solve is how many footballers have to go out to lighten the template and in what way. In the last days, information arrives from England of the acquisition (not yet approved) of an investment fund from Saudi Arabia to buy the Newcastle and make a heavy outlay on footballers. In this project, Gareth Bale is positioned as the star signing and for which the new owners would pay 60 million euros. The last word is always Bale’s and the Welshman’s intentions are known: he wants to speed up his contract.
No player wants to leave Real Madrid in these uncertain times. Neither Mariano, who is also injured, and counts little for Zidane. The coach only has Benzema at the moment as an attacker. Not even James is clear where his future is. If the Colombian does not facilitate his departure and choose his destination (he wants to go to Atlético de Madrid) he will put up obstacles to hurry, like Bale, his contract. There are many cases to solve. Like what to do with Brahim Díaz. Another who resists a loan and is waiting for more opportunities to demonstrate that he has the quality and personality to play for Real Madrid. There is lots of fabric to cut at Real Madrid before considering a transfer that is unclear among those who must make a decision.
Among those who must take decisions important is Zidane if you are clear if you have the loans (Ceballos, Achraf, Reguilón and Odrizola). The matter of Odegaard It is a different subject that depends on the Norwegian (he wants to continue in San Sebastián) and the agreement between Florentino and Jokin Aperribay. In order to rebuild the team and give entry to all these young people, there must be gaps in a squad that has veterans and that they do not want to leave (it is the case of Marcelo and Modric) and to whom Zidane respects their status.
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