Celta's visit to Di Stéfano keeps an element of extra interest: Miguel Baeza. The Madrid youth squad (20 years old) left last summer transferred to Vigo for € 2.5 million fixed and € 500,000 in variables in exchange for half the rights and as Celtiña is beginning to look in this new and flashing it was coudet.
The Cordoba midfielder was the only one of the Golden Youth who won this last UEFA Youth League who has been transferred, just days before the final phase in Switzerland. A sale that is not a final goodbye. Madrid kept a buyback option for the first two years (they would have to pay € 5M to get it back) of the five contracts that the ex-castillista signed with Celta. For the remaining three years, Madrid will only receive half of Baeza's transfer to another team if Celta decide to sell him.
Baeza, in the UEFA Youth League duel against Galatasaray last season.
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In Vigo things are going well for the young Andalusian, a talent in the center of the field who landed in Valdebebas in 2006 from Seneca from Córdoba. A quarry, Cordovan, from which Madrid also caught another youth squad, Antonio Blanco, which pushes hard on Factory and that Zidane likes a lot.
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Baeza was one of the highlights in Castilla de Raúl last season and in this season he accumulated in Balaídos one after another small achievements. He played a full part against Barcelona, for example, and at the end of November he scored his first goal in the First Division against Granada. Accumulate seven consecutive games playing between the League and the Cup. Confidence in a newcomer that Baeza, who went to live alone in Vigo, is returning while Madrid watches him from a distance.
A new policy
Baeza is another of the homegrown players that Madrid has let go in exchange for an economic pinch that helps the white coffers during the pandemic but of which only 50 percent is released. It also happened with Javi sanchez. Madrid sold 50% of its rights to Valladolid for € 3M. The same happened with two homegrown players, Dani Gómez and De Frutos, transferred to Levante for € 5M in total but, again, Madrid kept half of the property rights.