The Real Madrid sports project saves time

The victory in the Classic It was a relief in the offices of Bernabeu. It is true that after the game there are 12 days left to play and that five points of difference would have been salvageable. But it is also that they would have set the goal too uphill just before the difficult visit to Manchester to lift the 1-2 of the Champions League. Stay, for the second consecutive year, with no chance of winning the League and Champions in the month of March, would have shaken the foundations of the white stadium itself. The project would have been hanging by a thread …

In the current Madrid there are seven players who are 30 years old or far outnumber them. They are Modric (34), Ramos (33), Benzema (32), Marcelo (31) and Bale, Kroos and Nacho (who are 30). Hazard already has 29 and two operations on the same ankle … On the contrary, the club has made a great investment in young players. They are the Vinicius (45 million, 19 years old), Rodrygo (40, 19 years old), Reinier (30, 18 years old), Brahim (20, 20 years old), (Jovic (60, 21 years old) or Kubo (18 years old, wine free). There are other young people who are already installed in the elite, such as Valverde (21 years old). But a second dry season would have prevented a smooth transition. Too much pressure for those young people and for the club itself.

The project of the future of Madrid is not so immediately corseted by the remodeling of the Santiago Bernabéu. The conditions under which the loan of money necessary to do the works has been closed are advantageous. You will have to pay one fixed annual fee of 29.5 million as of July 30, 2023 and until its maturity on July 30, 2049 (27 installments). The sports project could be more conditioned, even, by the strategy of try to undertake the signing of Mbappé in the summer of 2021, when the French star has only one year left on his contract and can come at an affordable price, being a player of his size He could be around 200 million (he is 21 years old by Hazard, one hundred million were paid and he was 29). It is a strong investment (you will also have to pay a salary according to your level).

The victory in the Classic was balsamic. It cleared any doubts about future projects and left the possibility of winning the League very open. The three Champions in a row, curiously, they arrived in periods of low investment in Madrid players, who seemed to be in a time of contention to clear their accounts and thus obtain the loan for the stadium in the best conditions. In 15-16 they just came Kovacic (39) and Danilo (31) and won the Eleventh. In 16-17 he only came Morata for 30 million (and he won the TwelfthY The league). In 17-18 it only arrived The O (24) and Ceballos (16) and won the Thirteenth… The best came almost without investment, and that is exactly what Madrid needs, to gain time while the construction of the stadium is on its way and arrives Mbappé.