Real Madrid defeats Premier League in the race to sign the deal of the season
The sports management of the white club, the one that for some does not exist but that does not stop producing with Juni Calafat at the helm, five years ago drew up a network for attracting young talent that does not stop bearing fruit in the form of differential footballers.
Vinicius, Rodrygo, Reinier, Camavinga, Tchouameni and the newcomer give shape to this search for differential players who come to Real Madrid in exchange for money but beating more powerful enemies economically.
June 2023. The signing is confirmed, but Jude Bellingham’s story with Real Madrid dates back a long time. In January 2022, the Englishman already knew that the white club was following in his footsteps, that he was one of those possible players who could fit into his project.
Even before he arrived in Germany at the age of 16, Real Madrid had already detected the talent that was growing in Birmingham.
Bellingham’s arrival has its starting point in January 2022 , when his football began to be important at Borussia Dortmund at just 18 years old. That is the moment in which Real Madrid carried out its first approach to the German city.
Close knowledge of the player, follow-up and first messages , just as it happened with Camavinga or Tchouameni. They say that the key to these signings comes in those first movements in which closeness is transmitted. Many incognito trips, calls and study of everything related to the footballer are part of a dish that has been cooked over low heat since Valdebebas.
Confidence in what has been done
Last summer it was impossible to think of a signing for the Englishman and what Real Madrid did is ask him not to succumb to the contract renewal offer that his team was going to make him. He complied.
With the 22-23 season underway is when the threat from City and Liverpool turned into off-market contracts. What Real Madrid did was at all times make Bellingham see that he was still there, that he had not abandoned the race for his signing.
In January 2023, Valdebebas thought that everything they could do had already been done. And time has proved them right. The father (the player’s agent), the mother (one of the decisive factors) and even Borussia Dortmund were on Real Madrid’s side, but as happened with Tchouameni, the Premier pushed to the maximum.
City and Liverpool (the second year in which Klopp is left without his great goal) saw themselves as winners due to the power of money, but the field work was once again decisive and that fell to Real Madrid, overcoming moments of tension and filtered third-party messages to destabilize.
The relationship with the German team allows you to have some peace of mind with your footballers. There is no right of first refusal, it is a simple relationship of complicity achieved by Florentino Pérez and José Ángel Sánchez.
If they are going to sell, they let us know and if Real Madrid want to, they make the job easier. Nothing more and nothing less.
Whites’ history and a perfectly designed strategy have managed to wrest England’s reference footballer for the next decade from the Premier’s pounds . In addition, of course, a privileged economic situation as a result of decision-making, some of them painful, but essential.
Source: Marca
