Madrid runs into Raiola

“We have run into the Church,” says the saying …n the case of football, if a club of the Real Madrid entity can come up with something, it is with the big players. There are currently four dominating the market. They are Pini Zahavi, Jonathan Barnett, Jorge Mendes and Mino Raiola. Of them, Madrid stopped having a relationship with Jorge Mendes since Cristiano's traumatic departure. And with the last, Mino Raiola, the relationship is also non-existent since he and Florentino clashed in 2016 over the Pogba operation, which was a request from Zidane for that summer and which could not arrive due to the refusal of the white president … Well with that last one, with Raiola is the one who Madrid has come up against in two of its main short-term future goals to rebuild the squad, Haaland (20 years) and Poba (27).

The good news for Real Madrid is that Raiola is working on resuming that relationship and starting to have a presence at Real Madrid in which, currently and in reality since Florentino is president, he has no player. The bad, that for him It would have been a priority to bring Pogba to the white squad first (the captain of France has been very unhappy at United for several years) and to leave the Haaland operation for later.

White interests go just the other way. The Pogba operation, although it is a priority for Zidane, it is not for Florentino, who sees how the footballer's high salary (15 million net per season) would throw him off the pay scale of the squad. In the Bernabéu offices they prefer Camavinga because of his youth (18 years old) although in the end, the price of both is already similar (it is in a range of 50 to 80 million euros). In any case, we will have to wait for the summer to gauge the situation of both. Camavinga is now from Barnett and the Englishman is a tough negotiator.

Haaland's case is clearer. Times marry for Real Madrid, Borussia, player and Raiola. Benzema has a contract until 2022, and until that date Madrid cannot make a large outlay on a signing of bells for that position, as he would be a substitute. On the other hand, Mino Raiola and Borussia Dortmund reached a verbal agreement to facilitate the departure of Haaland, which they signed for just over 20 million and as many in commissions, starting in 2022, without there being an agreed figure (as had been said of 75 million) for his departure. So that summer the operation would be triggered, not before …

Pogba and Haalnd belong to Raiola as Mbappé belongs to his father and the state of Qatar, owned by PSG, and Camavinga to Jonathan Barnett. Those are the suits of the deck that Madrid will have to handle in the coming months … all, complicated.