Madrid sacrifices Varane

In these times of crisis, with the need to balance balances, Real Madrid has been forced to sacrifice Varane. Moreover, he has sacrificed his pair of starting centrals with whom he has won the last three Champions League (the first of the series of four was with Pepe). First he let Ramos go free to save the 12 million net of his token. Now, Varane's transfer to United is almost a fact, as AS has been saying, and the deal will be closed at a figure of between 50 and 55 million euros.

Varane's case is very different from Ramos's. The Frenchman is fully in force, at his best, at 28 years old. Ramos, on the other hand, is 35 and is giving the last blows of his career. But the reality is that Madrid has been forced to get rid of that important piece to balance its accounts for the future. It has been giving a symbolic surplus for the two seasons affected by the fall in income due to the pandemic, and for the third to remain so, it needed a significant sale. There was no other player in the squad with a better start than the French central defender, world champion in the last year of his contract and asking for a renewal (deserved, on the other hand) clearly on the rise.

Real Madrid will make a big sale just when they need it most. The transfer of Varane to United, which is a matter of hours because Varane does not want to start training with Ancelotti and then go with Solsjkaer, it will be placed in the top-5 of the most numerous made by the white entity. In fact, It is more than likely that only those of Cristiano surpass Juve (100 million), Morata Chelsea (80) and Di María, precisely, Manchester United (75). Varane, who came to the club at the age of 17 from Lens on the express recommendation of Zidane, thus increases his legend… That the French coach left Madrid has also been decisive in his departure.

Varane has felt pushed in a way to leave Madrid. Until a few days ago, their environment kept the door open to renew, for which they appealed to Ancelotti, hoping that the coach would force the club to raise the offer he had to extend his contract. But it was not like that. For the club, selling is a necessity, and that is why it even gave United permission to negotiate with Varane (it is forbidden for a player with a contract until he has six months left to fulfill it) after the English club carried out already ago almost a month a first informal approach by calling José Ángel Sánchez …

In that first informal approach, the positions of both clubs were already fixed. Madrid is asking for 70 million for the central defender (just the assessment given by Transfermarkt) and United offers 45 plus five in variables … Presumably the transfer, once there is a full agreement between United and the player, will close in the next few days at around 50 million euros. The English club is already managing its first written offer. A respite for Madrid's coffers but a problem for the squad in the back, where now the starting central pair will be the one made up of Militao and Alaba with Nacho and Vallejo in the bedroom.