In a week we will be counting the hours for the ball to roll again in Anoeta in an official match. The season will have already resumed and Real and Osasuna will close the 28th day from 22.00 at the Reale Arena. The first of the 11 games that the txuri urdin squad has ahead of them in which they will put much of their future at stake.
Six home games and five away games separate Real from certifying their fourth classification for a European competition in the last ten years, since they rose in 2010. With eight points of advantage over the eighth classified – the last one that today has not He would qualify for Europe – very bad things have to be given him to at least not play the Europa League next season. The great dream of the whole club, expressed by the football director, Roberto Olabe, is to play the Champions League, a much larger company. Sevilla, Real, Getafe, Atlético and even Valencia are classified within a five point margin and there will only be two places for one of those five teams in the maximum continental competition next season. The Real would need to maintain, at least, the current sum rhythm and finish the championship, therefore, close to 65 points. That is, winning six of the remaining eleven games.
Making the template
The calendar section that will begin next Sunday in Anoeta, the definitive one, will not only be decisive in establishing the final prize distribution between the teams, but will also affect, in some way, the composition of the squad for the next campaign. And it is that playing in Europe, especially in the Champions League, would mean a weight trick in the aspiration to keep Odegaard one more season at Real.
Under normal circumstances, there would be nothing to talk about. The loan granted is for two seasons because that is what the footballer himself wanted. However, the economic hardships that will mark next summer and the few major investments that are anticipated, together with the great growth that the Norwegian has experienced at Real, have led to Real Madrid, who still does not know if Modric He will continue, to evaluate the convenience of recovering his footballer this summer.
“Moderately optimistic”
OdegaardIn any case, he is also aware of the benefit that playing for this season at Real has meant for his growth and what would continue to progress if he stays one more year in the Txuri Urdin team, especially playing in Europe. Hence the significance of the final eleven games. The Norwegian wants to continue being important and assumes that at Real Madrid he will have it practically impossible next season.
In the same way that there will not be much money to sign, it will not be easy for clubs to get rid of the players they do not have. In the case of Real Madrid it would be essential to make room for a squad with many troops to make room for crack txuri urdin. With all these cards on the table, the Royal, in Olabe's mouth, has been “moderately optimistic” about keeping the Nordic in their ranks. But we must finish the job. The first big step can be taken on the pitch, making the pass for Europe. It's a week before the fight starts.