Odegaard is already from Arsenal

Martin Odegaard stop being a Real Madrid footballer. The white club and Arsenal have completed the transfer agreement and the Norwegian becomes a footballer of the gunners. It leaves transferred (the Madrid entity will not have a buyback option but it does keep a right of first refusal for the future) and Madrid will enter for its sale around 40 million fixed plus an extra amount in variables. Odegaard will travel to London in the next few hours and this Thursday is expected to be his debut on the Emirates.

It is the end to one of the hot spots of the Madrid summer. Odegaard returned in July from his six-month assignment at Arsenal and after verifying during the preseason that he was not returning with starting stripes, he has preferred to leave the club. ANDl Madrid also settles in this way a strong bet that began six years ago, when it took over the Nordic when he turned 16, paying 2.3 million euros and gave him a salary of minigalactic (€ 3.5M gross per year). Odegaard did not adapt to Castilla, nor did he convince Ancelotti, Rafa Benítez or Zidane and has only gotten his best performance in some of his many transfers (twice at Heerenveen, Vitesse, Real Sociedad and Arsenal). Without success in sports, Real Madrid has obtained a significant economic gain from the Norwegian. In addition to this income from its sale, two years ago it received € 2M for its transfer in San Sebastián and the club for the season gunner paid € 5M for the six-month loan.

Arsenal has accelerated the negotiations in the last hours because their goal was to complete the paperwork before this Friday, the deadline to register Odegaard in time to play this Sunday in the London derby against Chelsea (5:30 pm). The midfielder, who has not trained for the last two days with Madrid (he did it alone) to avoid injury, He will pass the medical examination immediately and will be able to be under Arteta's orders against the current European champion.