'Madrid 2021', red hot year

With the year 2021 just starting, Real Madrid is preparing for an exercise full of important obstacles that it has to overcome to ensure the future and the economic viability of the entity in the short term. Mbappé, Camavinga, the renovations of Modric, Lucas and especially Sergio Ramos, the salary reduction from 10 to 15% that he must still agree with the staff and that has so complicated, to combine the works of the new Bernabéu with the return of the public to the stands… All, transcendental themes that leave a red-hot 2021. These are the main detailed aspects.

Mbappe.

It is the great strategic objective of Madrid, which intends to take off again economically as it did in 2000 with Los Galacticos. In the short term he wants to form a trident with the Frenchman, Hazard and, as of 2022 (when Benzema ends his contract) with Haaland. Mbappé is one of those players who ensures an economic return for advertising contracts that are improved with his presence. Madrid has achieved its goal, that it does not renew and that it reaches next summer with only one year left on its contract. It will be then when the formal negotiation with PSG begins. But its price is unknown and now Pochettino is pressing to retain him.

Camavinga.

Madrid have not been able to manage the times with the young 18-year-old Rennes midfielder. He has a contract until 2022 and has already made the decision to leave France next summer. That is why the representative has changed. Before it was Mousa Sissoko, the same as the Barcelona player Dembelé, and now it has been placed in the hands of the prestigious Jonathan Barnett. AS already reported that the intention of the superagent is to take him to Real Madrid, and Barnett himself winked a few days ago: “My relationship with the entity is excellent,” he said, to put aside their differences for Bale. Will there be money left for Camavinga after the Mbappé operation? It is the main stumbling block.

Salary reduction.

At the moment, Madrid has it in Chinese with this theme after a secret meeting of the staff in which it has been agreed to say “no” to the proposal for a reduction of 10%. It is a fundamental issue for Real Madrid because at the moment, without an audience in the stadiums, has a hole in the accounts of 90 million euros (Those will be, roughly, the losses). And that's not counting the 275 million that will be taken this season from the 570 million of the loan for the reform of the stadium. They reason from the squad that if there is money for large signings and pay their salaries, there must also be them to pay the current chips of the squad.

Ramos, Modric and Lucas Vázquez.

Madrid has waited until the last moment to solve these three issues. The first two, those of Ramos and Modric, They already knew each other fundamentally, because today they are the two players who have the most weight in the dressing room. But that of Lucas Vázquez has also become fundamental because today he is a fixture in Zidane's eleven (he has 16 games in a row as a starter). Lo de Ramos is at a crossroads No way out because his relationship with Florentino has been turbulent in the past, but they are doomed to understand each other. With Modric there is already a first agreement for the renewal for a year although it remains to be seen that it becomes effective when the contract figures are put on the table (now he charges nine million net) and Lucas has rejected the first proposal because he understands that it was downward.

David Alaba.

An issue that is directly related to that of Sergio Ramos, as Madrid makes his hiring subject to Ramos finally leaving the entity. The versatile Austrian defender is released next summer and can now negotiate for any entity. A first approach of Madrid to know its situation throws the following data: he wants a salary of 12 million and a transfer bonus of at least 20 million more. Everything is up in the air until the future of Ramos is known, but in the meantime, the other teams that want Alaba (PSG, Barça, City, United and Liverpool) put pressure.