Ramos 'commits' Madrid

Real Madrid did not renew Sergio Ramos' contract and the Sevillian finally found a place at Paris Saint-Germain, who offered him the two years that the white club did not want to give him (when Ramos wanted to accept the one-year proposal, Madrid told him that it was already late and that the future had been planned without counting on him). TO Instead, Madrid signed Alaba for free (he will earn the same as Ramos, 12 million net per year; He has just turned 29) and trusts that Militao and Nacho comply accompanying the Austrian, with Varane with the transferable poster and waiting for an offer that, probably, will come from Manchester United.

Although the operation is not without risk, a risk that will be marked by what happens in the future. Ramos has signed for two courses, until June 2023, confident that his 35 years and the repeated injuries he has suffered this season will not take their toll. and I can continue to perform at the highest level at the hands until I am 37. If it happens, the spotlights will turn in the direction of Madrid, in the same way that they went to Barcelona this year after forcing the departure of a Luis Suárez who was paid part of his salary so that later it was fundamental in the title of League of the Athletic of Madrid. With David Villa, in 2013-14, something very similar already happened.

Real Madrid has a history of important footballers who left in the direction of other teams after not reaching an agreement with Madrid or by decision of both parties. We review four cases such as those of Redondo, Raúl, Casillas and Cristiano Ronaldo.

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It was the second big sale for Florentino Pérez when he became president of Real Madrid in 2000. The Madrid president had spent a significant amount on the signings of Figo (60 million), Flavio Conçeiçao (25), Makelele (14), Munitis (10), César (6) and Solari (3.5), it was imperative to make transfers to square the box. The first was that of Anelka, who had not fit in with Madrid and went to PSG for almost 35 million, practically the same as it cost a year before from Arsenal. It was not enough and Florentino put on the market one of the idols of the Octava as Fernando Redondo, idol of madridismo after his heel strike at Old Trafford.

And there Milan appeared to take him away in exchange for 17 million euros, a very advantageous operation for the Italian team that would end up being ruinous due to bad fortune.: As soon as he arrived, he broke the cruciate ligaments in his right knee and did not play for two years. He could not even make his debut, he always attributed the problem to the training systems in Italy, much more physical than in Spain and that made a dent from the beginning. He could barely play 33 games in Milan, giving four assists, before retiring in 2004 when he understood that he was no longer for the first professional level.. The great Redondo of Madrid never appeared again.

Raul

The mythical white '7' is the player who has worn the Madrid shirt the most times (741) and the second with the most goals scored (323, only surpassed by Cristiano's 450). Valdano made him debut in the 1994-95 season, at just 17 years old, and for a decade and a half he was the leader of a Madrid that would win three Champions of five editions, in addition to six Leagues. However, the arrival of José Mourinho to the Madrid bench put an end to that.

The Portuguese transferred to Raúl his admiration for him, but also his intention to completely renew the white attack and the squad in general, which would make it very difficult for him to have minutes. Raúl understood the situation and looked for an exit to Schalke 04 in Germany, from where he showed Madrid that he still had football in his boots: In two seasons there, he won two titles (a German Cup and a Super Cup), played 98 games, scored 40 goals, gave 21 assists and led the German team to the semi-finals of the 2010-11 Champions League, eliminating on the way to Inter Milan, the current champion. He left Schalke as an idol and went to play first for Qatar and then for Cosmos in New York. He returned to Madrid and currently trains Castilla.

Iker Casillas

Mourinho's stage left Casillas clearly marked, who with Ancelotti inserted a lot of bench in the League with titles in the Cup and Champions during the 2013-14 season. Coincidentally, Madrid took the two tournaments that he played and Ancelotti rectified in 2014-15, giving him the leading role and transferring Diego López to Milan. That course started well, but ended in disaster and evidenced the fracture of Casillas with the stands, a part of which did not forgive his confrontation with Mou and whistled at him at the slightest opportunity. Its performance, in a slow but evident decline, did not help in that regard either.

And with the arrival of Rafa Benítez in 2015-16, Casillas learned from the coach that he did not have him and looked for a way out. Benítez's idea was to shoot with Keylor Navas, as he did, except that De Gea signed for Madrid, which was about to happen. And Casillas reached an agreement with Madrid to pay him a part of his contract and went to Julen Lopetegui's Porto. With Porto he played 156 games in four seasons, conceding only 116 goals and leaving a clean sheet 74 times. He won two Leagues, a Cup and a Super Cup, although he came into conflict with one of his coaches there, Sergio Conçeiçao, who for a time withdrew him from the title. Finally, the heart attack he suffered during training brought his career to a halt. He is currently in Madrid, as special advisor to the president.

Cristiano Ronaldo

The last case and the most notorious. Cristiano, the top scorer in the history of Real Madrid with 450 goals, He got tired of not receiving the salary he considered he deserved and requested his transfer in the summer of 2018, after a long negotiation with Florentino Pérez in which the excellent relationship soured slightly, although the waters returned to their course shortly after. Madrid transferred to Cristiano that his clause was one billion, but that he did issue a statement in which it was crystal clear that he was leaving at his express request, that price was lowered to one hundred million, which Juventus paid to take him away.

However, time showed that both Madrid and Cristiano were stronger when the pair was united; separately, they have not done very well. Madrid spent two years in a row falling in the eighth of the Champions League, this season they reached the semifinals and without Cristiano they have added a League, a Spanish Super Cup and a Club World Cup. The Portuguese, for his part, has not passed the quarterfinals with Juventus, where he has won two Leagues, two Super Cups and an Italian Cup in three years, and has moved away from the individual distinctions that are so important to him. Juve, in addition, is not comfortable with his huge salary (30 million net per season) and looked at the possibility of giving him out this summer, but at his age (36 years) it is difficult to find suitors. Of course, he is still a thrashing machine: he has 101 goals in 133 games with the Turin team.