The return at the end of the season of Gareth Bale to Real Madrid can not only be a sporting conflict for the white club, It also represents a problem in terms of the quota of non-EU players ahead of the 2021-2022 season. Because from next June 30 he will no longer have this condition in the Spanish league.
19/02/2021
Act. a las 10:45
THIS
–
–
–
–
–
Currently the Welsh player, now on loan to Tottenham, maintains his community status in the Spanish professional league. This was agreed by the employers and the Federation in an agreement signed and sealed on December 31, 2020 on the occasion of the entry into force of Brexit on January 1. In that circular it was already made clear that footballers with United Kingdom nationality who have been registered since January 1, 2021 coinciding with the winter transfer market have been considered “For the purposes of registration, maximum allowed quotas and the possibility of alignment, as” extra-community “.
But the same circular also regulates the situation of those players from the United Kingdom who already had a contractual relationship with a Spanish team prior to January 1, 2021.
In this case, and on a temporary basis, the “community” status with which the 2020-2021 Season began is maintained for all those footballers with UK nationality who, as of December 31, 2020, have signed a contract and valid license issued with a club assigned to professional categories, for the purposes of the maximum number of registrations allowed and the possibility of line-up in matches of these categories, until the end of the 2020-2021 Season “.
That is to say that from next June 30 all of them, including the Welsh player, lose this status, becoming one more extra-community. Condition that he will maintain in the Spanish league during the remaining contract year with Real Madrid.
This leads to a double stage to the white club. On the one hand, that they try to find a new assignment in this year that remains in the white discipline. And the Premier should be the destination because it will be there where there will be no quota. Given that in the rest of the European leagues, as is the case in our country, it will be in the same situation as regards its non-EU status.
The second possibility happens because he stays at Real Madrid where, today, there would be an excess of non-EU players. Right now the Brazilians Militao, Vinicius and Rodrygo have this condition.
Two scenarios can occur here. That Real Madrid choose to give up one of the two young Brazilians during the next season, Bale’s last at the white club; or try to nationalize any of the three in the coming months in order to be able to enjoy this condition when the next season starts.
The truth is that right now the return of Bale can cause a whole headache in the white institution. From the sporting point of view, considering the current relationship with Zidane, and from the institutional one due to this new condition of foreign player.
