Ramos, renovation stranded

The negotiation between Real Madrid and Sergio Ramos for the renewal of the captain has run aground. The process has been delayed until crossing a red line, that of January 1 (date from which the camero can legally negotiate with another club to go free), and the high point was a meeting held last December 30. As reported last Monday night by Josep Pedrerol in The beach bar, Ramos met Florentino at the team's hotel in Elche and told him that he will listen to offers to leave.

A blockade that is given because, according to this same medium, the camero feels “disappointed” with the economic proposal of the club. The offer would be for two seasons but keeping you his salary so far (12 million euros net) and, in addition, applying it in each of those two years the current 10 percent pay cut to the workforce that the club has used as a tool to weather the crisis derived from the pandemic. The captain and those around him believe that both the president and his right hand, José Ángel Sánchez, want him out of Madrid. The position of the entity did not change even though Ramos, according to the version of this medium, said he had received a call from PSG to meet him “with Messi”. As AS announced, PSG has been on the lookout for months and the change of coach from Tüchel to Pochettino does not alter that interest.

In any case, one more disagreement that leaves the renovation at a standstill and that joins a long list of scars between Florentino and Ramos in a relationship that the central defender defines in public as almost “father and son”, but which it started to twist in 2015. At that time, the center-back forced a salary increase by presenting an offer from Manchester United and Florentino, which had just certified the traumatic departure from Casillas, yielded not to lose two captains at a stroke. In 2019, Ramos called again claiming a chinese offer And before the club's refusal to renegotiate his contract or to let him go free, this time he had to back down and offer a press conference in which he promised eternal love. “My wish is to retire here even if it's free,” he said.

Praise, warm

Madrid has been counting throughout this process with a card I've never had before: there's a potential substitute in hand. As this newspaper reported, it is David Alaba, who lives a similar situation in MunichAlthough Bayern has shelved the matter because the versatile defender rejected the last renewal offer in November. It will be free and will be released in June.

For a few weeks his agent, the powerful Pini Zahavi, has been on the red-hot phone and in England Madrid is spoken of as the main favorite. As published yesterday The Guardian, is ahead of four other interested clubs, especially Liverpool, which is looking for a central defender and is also a rival for Mbappé. Ramos, Alaba, Real Madrid, PSG and Liverpool, five actors in a negotiation, that of renewal of the great Madrid captain, who has been stranded.