White 'La Fábrica' is a vein: € 308M in sales since 2009

Factory Real Madrid player not only finances himself through sales, it is that reports huge benefits to Madrid. According to the latest accounts of the club, his lower categories cost him 20.8 million euros per season. In economic terms, it is almost what comes in for every two stonemasons he has sold in the last decade: since 2009 the club has made cash with 31 youth squads for which it charged 308 million euros (€ 9.6M average per sale). In most cases, with total capital gain because they were players who started directly at the club as children or their arrival was at zero cost …

A special case has been that of Morata. His has been a coming and going leaving a lot of money in Concha Espina. He went to Juventus in 2014 for € 22M, Madrid recovered him two years later for € 30M and the following summer he sent him to Chelsea for € 80M, a record for a white youth squad. After adding transfers and subtracting what was paid for the repurchase, the calculator returns € 72M profit for Madrid thanks to the spanish international. TO Omar Mascarell also sold it twice, first to Eintracht and then to Schalke.

Rain of millions, an economic benefit that complements the sporting benefit that was assumed during that period by those who did climb from Castilla to be part of the first squad at no cost. They made it Nacho, Mateos, Jesús Fernández, Carvajal, Morata, Jesé, Pacheco, Lucas Vázquez, Yáñez, Mayoral, Mariano, Achraf, Marcos Llorente and Reguilón. “If they make it to the first team, we are delighted. But not all of them fit … ”, Florentino Pérez himself replied to a partner at the last Assembly, in September last year. The Factory generates and generates soccer players, without stopping, whether or not they have a place on the first team. The evidence is palpable. Madrid is the one with the most youth squads spread across the top European divisions. Currently there are 83, distributed almost at par: 42 in Spain and 41 ‘emigrants’.

The ways of income for the youth squads are varied and sometimes bear fruit unexpectedly. For example, through the solidarity mechanism that FIFA imposes on transfers (5% of the sale will go to the club or clubs that formed the player between 12 and 23 years old). There are white excanans who will be on the market, like Marcos Alonso (Chelsea) and Equal (Valencia), which could leave money in the white coffers. The side of the Blues is valued at € 20M according to the specialized website Transfermarkt, so if it is sold for that price € 800,000 would correspond to Madrid by the solidarity mechanism (he trained the player from 12 to 19 years old).

Those who come: Blanco, Baeza, Pedro …

If one thing is certain every summer in Madrid, it is that its youth squads are desirable pieces in every transfer market. At the Bernabéu offers also come for Castilla players. Although this season the subsidiary did not qualify for the promotion playoffs, there are highly prized talents. The midfielders Antonio Blanco (19 years old) and Miguel Baeza (19 years old and a top scorer, with 9 goals) have generated interest but will continue in Castilla 2020-21. The battering ram of the team, Pedro, was courted by the Bundesliga before suffering a severe knee injury last February. And below come high-value youths like Miguel Gutiérrez, Morante, Sintes and Pablo Ramón. Jewels that, if they do not reach the first team, could leave a lot of money in the box.