The bet of Real Madrid When it comes to making signings, it has been clear for years: go for young players. The white club knows that it cannot enter into economic wars with teams like City or PSG to make large financial outlays and has chosen to go for young people who are targeting cracks to ensure that they have future stars and not have to go later Go for them when they are consolidated.
This strategy has been reflected in the signings of players such as Vinicius, Rodrygo, Odegaard, Brahim, Lunin, Reinier o Kubo. However, all that Real Madrid action plan is not reflected later on the field. Zidane He does not have those young people and prefers to bet on the known, on the old guard with which he won the three consecutive Champions League, the last in 2018. The only concessions that Zidane has made in the eleven have been Courteous,
Hazard y Mendy. And the last two were his requests to reinforce the white squad.
Thus, in the white club they are seeing how all their investment in young people is not working for anything and, above all, all the transfers they have made have been a failure, except in the case of Brahim. A lot of money invested and many projects for the future that have disappeared right now because Zidane is going his way, putting the veterans of the white squad on the field without leaving room for the signings of recent years, beyond those he has requested to arrive at the white club.
A way of acting, that of the coach, which puts at risk the investment of the club that sees how all the signings it has made in recent years have been devalued.
Almost the same since 2017
The real Madrid who played the Champions League finals in Cardiff and Kiev in 2017 and 2018 is almost traced to the current one. Of those finals that the white team won against Juventus (4-1) and Liverpool (3-1) to now, seven players remain indisputable for Zidane. Carvajal, Varane, Ramos, Modric, Casemiro, Kroos and Benzema They are those seven players who are fixed for Zidane four years after achieving the last Champions League for Real Madrid. The changes are Courtois by Keylor, Mendy by Marcelo, Hazard by Cristiano and Marco Asensio by Isco. Of all those who no longer play regularly, only Cristiano Ronaldo has left Real Madrid.
Modric is a permanent fixture in Zidane’s starting team
Zidane he continues to bet on those who made him win the Champions League, but the problem is that they are four years older and that shows a lot because age does not forgive. A good example is that the coach’s commitment to the same eleven has caused a tired Real Madrid to be seen in recent games, such as against Osasuna and Athletic.
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