Madrid can save up to € 250M with sales this summer

In the context of the economic crisis that the coronavirus pandemic has produced, it seems that the big clubs are going to have difficulties to execute flashy signings this summer. Without a doubt they will need to balance accounts, starting with Real Madrid, which in its budget for the 2020-21 season foresaw losses of 91 million euros, although they will be less thanks to the good progress of the team in the Champions League and the decrease in salaries that it has been negotiating with the players. But there is room for maneuver, especially if footballers are transferred this summer, which would entail earning money for their sales and, at the same time, save expenses on salaries.

There are seven key names in this operation, players who do not count for Zidane or who do it very residual: Odriozola, Isco, Mariano, Marcelo, Jovic and Ceballos. With those there are six, the seventh is Varane, whose case is separate, but that would allow an important income in the box of the club. Taking into account the valuations of these footballers in Transfermarkt, the savings could reach almost 250 million if they all left; it would probably be even higher, since there are footballers for whom Madrid would request a higher amount than that set by the famous football appraisal and statistics website.

Gareth Bale is left out of this list for obvious reasons: Madrid have been unable to sell him in the last two summers and it is unlikely that he will succeed the next. His salary, of 15 million net per season (that is, 30 gross), is too great a stumbling block; The most that the white club can aspire to is an operation like the one that took him on loan to Tottenham, a loan in which he shares the Welshman's salary. The times when Manchester United put 100 million on the table for him are long gone.

Varane

The Frenchman is a strange case: he is the undisputed holder and has the full confidence of Zidane. However, already during the 2018-19 season he thought about leaving Madrid, but the return of Zizou to the bench appeased that desire. His contract ends in 2022 and he has not responded to the renewal offers that Madrid has been making, so the club assumes that he does not want to extend his contract and therefore this would be the last summer in which a good amount could be obtained for it. Varane arrived from Lens in 2011 in exchange for only 10 million; He was a signing advised by Zidane, a good connoisseur of football from the neighboring country.

According to Transfermarkt, the value of Varane (about to turn 28) is 70 million euros, an amount that Madrid would accept most likely to facilitate their departure. He has several suitors in England and PSG has never taken his eye off him, always looking to try to Frenchize the team as much as possible to generate more empathy in Paris and alleviate that feeling of a team in foreign hands. Madrid would stop paying him a gross salary of 12 million; It is not one of the highest salaries of the workforce, far from it, but in this context it would help.

Odriozola

The Liverpool thing confirmed that Zidane does not count on him at all. Sin Carvajal or Lucas Vázquez and given the impossibility of aligning Nacho on the side due to the absence of centrals, Zidane preferred to place a touched and infiltrated Fede Valverde in the right lane before the Donostiarra. He barely accumulates 390 minutes this season and last season he already had to go to Bayern in January, although he did not scratch much ball there either. It cost 30 million from the Real at the time, although now its value is only 10 million. The relief for Madrid would be above all in the salary section: he earns seven million gross per season, a lot for a footballer who does not count.

Isco

The man from Malaga was a key player in the first stage of Zidane, but in this second he has lost weight in abundance and also the relationship between both parties has become rarefied. The Movistar cameras captured Isco cracking the Frenchman in front of his teammates, making fun of the few minutes he has. And already in January the player's father transferred to the club that they wanted to leave, with a view to being able to accumulate minutes and go to the European Championship; Madrid refused due to the lack of troops, although they did authorize the transfer of Odegaard to Arsenal.

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The value of Isco today is 20 million, although it is unlikely that Madrid will allow him to leave for that amount; in January there was talk of some claims price around 50 million. But it is true that the contract ends in 2022 and this is the last summer in which something can be paid for him, if he stays he will be able to go free the following summer, so it is likely that Madrid will accept the offers that come without fighting too much . It would greatly lighten the wage bill: he earns 14 million gross per season.

Mariano

Another who, like Odriozola, knows that it does not count for Zidane. Despite this, whenever he comes out he tries and has scored goals in the few opportunities he has had, but with the Frenchman on the bench he knows that he will never have continuity. However, that does not seem to have mattered too much to him: he already stayed in the summer of 2019 and repeated in 2020, despite the fact that he had a good offer from Benfica to leave. His salary is important, around nine million euros gross per season, enough for a footballer who last year did not add even 90 minutes and who has 563 ', made possible especially by the moments of absence of Benzema due to injury. Its value on Transfermarkt today is 10 million.

Marcelo

Another who ends his contract in 2022 and is in frank retirement, with Mendy closing the door on him. At the time, when Solari relegated him to the bench in favor of Reguilón, he thought of leaving in the direction of Juventus to play with his friend Cristiano, but Zidane's return banished that option. Close to turning 33, his market would be scarce and his value is barely 10 million euros, but his departure would be interesting in terms of salary: he earns 16 million gross per season and barely accumulates 924 minutes this year. As the second captain that he is (and he would be the first if Ramos finally leaves), Madrid will respect his contract, but if he looks for a way out, he will be given facilities.

Jovic

A transfer of 60 million euros that is now barely worth 20 million, according to Transfermarkt. The Serbian thing has gone really bad, but in Germany he still has a poster and in Italy they have also asked about him, it is possible that transferring him this summer (assuming the losses generated by the high price paid for him) is an option. He makes ten million gross per season, a nice bite of the payroll. And with Zidane he knows that it is difficult for him: the Frenchman preferred to stay only with Benzema and Mariano before closing the door to him last January, when he left on loan to Eintracht Frankfurt.

Ceballos

The Sevillian accumulates almost 2,000 minutes in his second assignment to Arsenal; It is difficult for him to maintain ownership in the Premier, although in the Europa League he does play a lot and the 'gunner' team is already in the semifinals. Its value remains high, at 30 million euros, practically double what Madrid paid for it in 2017. The white club has preferred to give it up instead of transferring it in the hope that it could hatch in Madrid, but while Zidane is the white coach is considered impossible. Ceballos issued some forceful statements in relation to the French when he had already left and, upon his return, the letters of both were marked.

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However, no bad word has come from one or the other since then, but Ceballos knows that with Zizou he will not be able to play with continuity and this summer could be his transfer, with a view to a different future. If Zidane takes the step and leaves, the situation would change. If he leaves, it won't be because of his salary; He is one of the lowest in the workforce, he signed in 2017 for around three million gross by season.