For many and very different reasons, This Monday will be special for Sergio Ramos. First, because the Real Madrid captain turns 34; second, because it does so in a peculiar and unexpected way, quarantined by the coronavirus crisis; and third because, in addition to the uncertainty generated by the pandemic, The central also handles the unknown about his future.
Ramos ends his target contract in 2021 and, as AS reported on February 20, the offices have not started talks for its renewal. It is an issue that the club had no intention of giving priority to, even less with the current complex problem. For this reason, the situation does not appear easy, something that has happened before, in 2015 and 2019, when the contractual status of the plant was discussed (currently it receives around 14 million net). And now there is an added danger: If there is no expansion, on January 1 it could negotiate with whoever it wants and go at zero cost in June 2021.
Last summer: from tension to peace
Madrid, as usual in cases in which the footballer is over thirty, He would offer Ramos one more year, until 2022, while the player would like to continue until 2023. The directive analyzes that, if the proposal thought for the Andalusian were given, this would conclude his stage at the Bernabéu with 36 years, a figure to be taken into account despite the physical care of the '4'. Fulfilling the captain's wishes, on the other hand, would mean that the engagement would end when i was 37 years old an assumption today not contemplated.
The last meeting between the parties, last May, after Florentino and Ramos discussed in March after the elimination in the Champions League, was sounded. The captain raised the possibility of going to China for free and Madrid closed in gang. At the end, They made peace and the defender again spoke at a press conference in Valdebebas of his dream: to retire as a Real Madrid player. It depends on these months that it becomes a reality.