FIFA prevents Real Madrid’s next signing due to a new rule

Real Madrid is working to strengthen the team for next season on several fronts. The most prominent and famous is the signing with Kylian Mbappe, whose contract with Paris Saint-Germain expires at the end of the current season and he does not intend to renew it, and Nasser Al-Khelaifi has been informed of this.

There is also the deal for Alphonso Davies, the Canadian full-back whose contract expires in June 2025 and who refused to renew with Bayern Munich and hopes to move to Real Madrid this summer or the summer of next year on a free transfer.

The ball is now in the German team’s court to decide whether it will negotiate with Real Madrid to obtain a reasonable fee for a player who has only one year left on his contract, or whether he will let him go for free in the summer of 2025.

But there is a third lucrative deal that Real Madrid was planning, but it clashed with the new regulations approved by FIFA, which prohibit buying and then reselling the same player in the same transfer season.

Real Madrid wanted to take advantage of Miguel Gutierrez’s brilliance with Girona this season, activate the buyback clause, and then sell him for a much higher sum than what he would pay.

Real Madrid sold Miguel Gutierrez to Girona in 2022 for 4 million euros and set a buyback clause for the player in the summer of 2024 for only 8 million euros, which is a very small amount of what the left-back is worth now in the transfer market.

Perez was planning to activate the purchase clause for 8 million euros and resell him for a large sum after his brilliance, but he will not be able to do so because of the FIFA rule that prohibits the purchase and sale of the same player in one transfer season.

But Real Madrid could benefit by making Girona sit down and negotiate if they want to retain the services of Miguel Gutierrez, who would pay to cancel the buyback clause.