When numbers are to be squared, the vision of those affected depends on which side of the money they are on. Sergio Ramos and Real Madrid do not give in in their very tough negotiation for the renewal of the white captain and the club continues to look at the economic factor with a microscope. That is why he refuses to offer the camero the amounts he asks for, hiding himself in the fall in income due to the pandemic. One of the variables that could make the entity's economy breathe, which is to get rid of the last year of the titanic Bale contract, almost definitely evaporates. Mourinho is fed up with the Welshman, Tottenham do not want to hear about a second year on loan and the result is that Madrid will have to pay Bale 30 million euros gross next season. All a harpoon to the white economy and with side effects.
If, as it seems, Bale is part of Real Madrid 2021-22 (or Madrid terminates him before, but paying him that year) a relief is closed to the accounts of the next year and a gap is opened to possible cracks in the wardrobe. From the club it has been dropping in different forums that everyone has to tighten their belts, but Ramos and Bale share a salary step and while the former has 668 games with Madrid, the Welshman barely played 50% of the minutes with the Madrid player. before leaving for London temporarily. A comparative grievance that Lucas Vázquez could join, another who is asked to make a financial sacrifice and who chained 20 games this season without rest and without knowing what will happen to him next season.
Hazard assured this week in an interview in Belgium that getting injured is not a tragedy because that way he can “spend more time with the family.”
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The pulse that Madrid and Ramos are carrying, by pulling the rope in the shade, does not wane and both parties are feeding their positions. The club, which slips that sees you out; the camero, who considers that his exceptional service record is not taken into account throughout a decade and a half. Ramos has been playing with one knee to the limit until he has been seen undergoing surgery, while he can read his teammates like Hazard, with a salary similar to his, downplay his numerous absences due to injury. “Injuries are not the end of the world, so I can be more with my family …”, was the controversial headline of the Belgian's interview this week in the magazine On The Front Foot. Hazard plays even less (just 25% of the possible minutes) than Bale and represents another € 28M of gross euros per year for Madrid, separate prizes. Another sting to the wage bill.
In the surroundings of Ramos Even less is understood all the more or less solid movements of Madrid to invest in galactic signings (Mbappé, Haaland …) or of young people (Camavinga) and that on the contrary the way of saving is to touch the salary of those who are already and they are, as is the case of the captain, a leader in the field and sometimes even an unofficial spokesperson for the entity.
An equation that is difficult to solve due to how festering the parts are, but in which there are at least peculiar variables. If Ramos agrees to lower his salary, it will be to pay an indolent Bale; if he leaves, the club will have to go to the market and a central defender of his level will demand a similar or even higher salary, as is the case with Alaba, the favorite, who wants a spectacular token of € 22M per year. A puzzle with no apparent or immediate solution.