Selling, selling and continuing to sell will be the motto of Real Madrid this summer as the Spanish soccer champions need to get rid of some players in the hope of supporting the club's treasury by about 200 million euros.
The Spanish newspaper "MARCA" stated that the financial crisis resulting from the Corona epidemic forced Real Madrid to decide not to conclude any new deal and to replace that by returning some of the loaned players that coach Zinedine Zidane believes that the team needs them.
The newspaper revealed that club director Jose Angel Sanchez had met with the players and told them openly.
The newspaper, close to the club, said that the latest developments in Real Madrid are that the management wants the number of departures from the team to reach 11 players, including deals that have already been concluded, the most prominent and most successful from the management point of view, the sale of Moroccan defender Ashraf Hakimi to Inter for 40 million euros.
Marca added that Zidane will compensate for the lack of new deals by returning some loans, starting with Martin Odegaard, followed by Dani Ceballos and goalkeeper André Lunin, who will be a reserve for Thibaut Courtois, instead of Alphonse Areola, who returned to his team, Paris Saint-Germain.
The newspaper pointed out that the most crowded positions in Real Madrid are the attack, so most of the victims will be among them, and it has already been confirmed that Colombian James Rodriguez is on the list of sales, and Isco may be abandoned to Juventus, who showed interest in him after the new coach Andrea Pirlo.
While the club's crisis chapters continue with Gareth Bale, who wants Zidane and the club's management to leave, but the highest-paid player in the team wants to complete his contract, which expires after two years, despite sitting in reserve since the return to competitions following the Corona pandemic.
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