Madrid's ace up his sleeve to keep track of his ex

He Real Madrid is starring in a summer sales very important: Achraf to Inter for 40 million, James to Everton for 25, Oscar to Sevilla for 15, Javi sanchez to Valladolid for 3, Of fruits and Dani gomez Levante for 2.5 each … And in almost all cases, said transfers have been made with a exit hatch so that the Real Madrid can qualify for get those players back in the future: rights of first refusal.

Only in the case of James not included, for obvious reasons: the breaking off between Madrid and the Colombian it was total for a long time, especially because of the little confidence that Zidane had in him, and the common decision has been to separate paths. In the rest there are these clauses, which are also added to that in the In the case of Oscar, Madrid has transferred only 75% of the rights and in the case of Sánchez, De Frutos and Gómez, 50% of each.

In the past, the formula to recover the players were the buyback clauses, which established in a premeditated way the price what would I have to pay the club to get the footballer back, who from the first moment gave his consent for it. With that formula, for example, Morata returned to Madrid: He went to Juventus in 2014 in exchange for 20 million and returned in 2016 in exchange for 30.

Conflict with the FIFA regulations

But for a while now the white club change its way to proceed in this matter and chose to include in his transfers scoring options only. The buyback option could crash with the Article 18bis of the Regulations on the Status and Transfer of FIFA Players: “No club will enter into a contract that allows any party to said contract, or third parties, to assume a position by which they can influence labor matters and transfers related to the independence, politics or performance of the club's teams.”

It is not a clear matter, is a Gray zone interpretation and a agreed operation in advance and well explained could pass the fifa court, but in any case in Madrid is preferred now impose scoring options with which the only existing advantage is that, in the event of an offer by the player in question, Madrid must be informed and have 72 hours to respond and, if they match the offer, recover the player. This is what happened with Mariano, for example: he was going to Sevilla, with whom he had everything done, as Madrid equaled the 22 million that the Seville team put up.

Achraf, exemplary case

And so has happened this summer, for example, with Achraf, transferred to Inter Milan for 40 million. The Spanish-Moroccan is already among the best full-backs in the world, but he knows that in Madrid he would have it difficult with Carvajal and that's why he chose the Italian team, with the approval of the white club. In a few years, when Carvajal falls from his zenith, Madrid will always be able to look askance at Achraf and, if possible, bring it back to the White House.