“It doesn’t matter what I will charge”

Vinicius Junior is the man of fashion at Real Madrid and in Spanish football. The white club paid 45 million euros to Flamengo for him when he was only 16 years old. A slab for his youth that he has been shed little by little. This campaign, his fourth in the team, has meant his explosion as a footballer. He is the team’s second scorer, with nine goals, only behind Benzema.

With a contract until 2024, it is already beginning to talk about its renewal. And in an interview for Tatiana Mantovani on TNT Brazil’s ‘TNT Sports’ program, Vinicius himself was very forceful about what he thinks about it. “They haven’t told me anything, but I’m very calm because there is still a lot of time left. Of course I want to renew, of course I want to stay here for a long time, but I am very calm with that, all at the right time. The contract I still have is the one from when I was 16 years old. It does not matter when I am going to renew, how much I am going to charge or how much I charge, what matters is the satisfaction of being in the best team in the world ”.

It was the player’s own representative, Federico Peña, who put the focus on the footballer’s contract with some statements he recently made on Globo Sporte: “The normal thing, in a player who signs for five or six years (Vinicius signed six, from 2018 to 2024), is that when there are two years left, the talks start to renew. What will happen? I don’t know. It all depends on the club’s entity, the size, and there is the issue that the athlete wants to improve ”.

Vinicius earns 3.2 million net per season, a figure that by objectives can be extended to four million euros. According to Goal, he is in the tail wagon of the squad, among the five lowest salaries of the team. Peña does not confirm it, but he does make it clear that his client deserves a substantial improvement: “We really don’t know what the salaries of the other players are. Let’s say he’s in the bottom third. With Vinicius, there’s a different perspective. He was recruited at 16, he’s the only player hired by Real Madrid without having played a game. Professional. Maybe it’s better for him that he has this contract, that he is not among the highest at the moment, and that, when it is extended, maybe he will go to the first third. “