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Real Madrid | Real Madrid will experience a ‘changing of the guard’ in 2022

Real Madrid modified its hiring policy years ago and went from breaking the market at the stroke of galactic signings to tracking it to detect early talent before its price skyrocketed to amounts only acceptable by so-called club-states. The only arrival that altered the plan was Eden Hazard last summer after paying Chelsea 100 million. With this strategy the club was laying the foundations for a generational relay that has already begun to occur in some positions and that will have its great change of guard in 2022, year in which up to seven players from the current squad end their contract: Carvajal, Varane, Nacho, Marcelo, Isco, Bale and Benzema. All of them members of the brilliant Real Madrid that conquered four Champions (a year before Modric, James, Lucas and Ramos finished, although in the case of the captain the club slides that there will be no problems in renewing him). A circumstance that does not imply that everyone leaves, but in some of these cases the entity is already working to find relief for the future.

For example to Benzema, one of Florentino Pérez’s favorite players (not in vain, he himself went to his house in Lyon to sign him in 2009). The Frenchman has been in white for eleven seasons, claiming his figure of “nine with the soul of ten”, as he came to define himself one day, and pulling the scoring car since the departure of Cristiano Ronaldo in 2018. His contract fulfills him in 2022, when he is 34 years old. Or Gareth Bale, who also ends his relationship with Madrid in two years, with 32. The Welshman is in the window, but a transfer market devalued by the economic crisis derived from the coronavirus pandemic and his insistence on remaining in the capital of Spain complicate the exit.

Attack

In this sense, Madrid simmering the replacement in the attack, although it has already started that regenerative process with incorporations such as those of Vinicius or Rodrygo. Mbappé is undoubtedly the jewel of that changing of the guard that was devised at the Bernabéu. French striker ends contract with PSG in 2022. The intention of Madrid is that he does not renew and that 2021, when he only has one year left, to undertake the signing and that he can leave Paris at a reasonable price. Now only 21. The coronavirus crisis has blown up this roadmap. The player is evaluating the need to accept the PSG renewal offer that he has on the table, although he would only do so if a fixed amount was included in the new contract for which he could go out to a great team. This leaves the door open for Madrid, although the operation would become more expensive. The other name on the wish list is Haaland., Norwegian pearl that is fashionable in Europe. The Nordic giant (measures 1.94 meters) of Borussia is only 19 years old and, despite having two games without scoring, his breakthrough in the elite has caused a great impact and is liked in Concha Espina. As AS reported, there is a verbal pact between Mino Raiola, the player’s agent, and Borussia not to facilitate his departure until the summer of 2022. If it came out before that date, the German entity would demand an exorbitant amount for the Madrid accounts and more, in a delicate economic context after the COVID-19 pandemic. So that, Madrid turn on the high beams, postpone any pulse until two years from now and dream of a Mbappé, Haaland, Hazard trident …

Erling Braut Haaland photo

The midfield also occupies the future thoughts of the club, which is already seeing its first fruits in those first investments in youth talent. Fede Valverde has exploded this year and has firmly installed himself in Zidane’s plans with all the right. The Uruguayan has begun to oxygenate a Modric loaded with kilometers and seniority. The Croatian is now 34 years old and his contract ends in 2021, so the replacement with El Pajarito is more than assured. In 2022, when he is 30 years old, Isco ends. The man from Malaga came to Madrid in 2013. He fell on his feet at the Bernabéu, but his career has been a roller coaster and his name has been on the market in recent years. His love for the shirt and Zidane’s decision repeatedly stopped his departure. But in two years his contract ends and his future is up in the air. More if possible due to the renewal plan of the midfield in which the club is working with names such as Odegaard, Camavinga or Fabián Ruiz. Not forgetting Marco Asensio, a player who is called to step forward after having one of the worst moments of his career with the knee injury he suffered in August.

Defending

But it is in defense that Damocles’ sword-shaped 2022 flies over. Marcelo ends the contract that season. He would be 34 years old and the player is aware that the end of his career is near, as he confessed to Cannavaro last month. In this sense, the club already has its duties done: the past signed Mendy, who has ended up putting the body to the Brazilian and winning the position. On the other side is Carvajal. Youth plays in their favor before a possible renewal because in 2022 will be 30 years old, although with too much wear on his legs after playing it all with little competition in recent campaigns. It is at this point that the name Achraf emerges. At just 21 years old he has hit the lug in his ‘mili’ at Borussia Dortmund and Madrid wants him on the roster next season. The Moroccan finishes his loan in Germany and dreams of succeeding in white but does not want to interrupt his growth either. It takes minutes and now, the presence of Carvajal can cut its wings. So, It is not ruled out that Madrid agrees to another transfer or to a transfer with an option to purchase with a view to a future ArraAs you are known in Valdebebas, inherit the Carvajal keys in the right lane. Although everything is pending a conversation when the season ends between the defense agent and Madrid.

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Picture of Carvajal

Varane and Nacho also have only two years left on their contracts. The Frenchman will be 29, the perfect age to continue in the center of the white back; the man from Madrid, 32, and his future is unknown. He always has offers in the summer and he always discards them to continue in the club he loves despite not enjoying the minutes he would like. Madrid signed Militao (22 years old) last summer, who has left more doubts than confidence in his first year, and studies the operation of Upamecano (21), central Leipzig, within the framework of that generational replacement of centrals in the which is also included Sergio Ramos, who is now 34 years old and his renewal, frozen (ends in 2021 and Madrid’s position is to extend contracts at that age season by season) … A new era is beginning to be designed at Real Madrid with a change of guard that It revolves around 2022, the year in which the new stadium is scheduled to be finished …

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Varane photo


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