Reinier Jesus Carvalho (Brasilia, 2002) was blowing on Sunday the candles of his 18th birthday without the concern of what would be the great gift of such a marked anniversary. The gift was the ephemeris itself, because with the age of majority already completed the obstacles to consummate his signing for Real Madrid were over. The white club, cautious after FIFA's vigilance with transfers of minors, had chosen to wait to formalize the incorporation of the young Brazilian midfielder. Until Monday, 18 years and one day, Reinier officially became a Real Madrid footballer.

The entity chaired by Florentino Pérez has spent around 30 million to incorporate a player who is already compared to Kaka in Brazil, despite his youth. Like him, Reinier is a classic midpoint, with a lot of technical quality and easy to see the door. “Physically, he is a gifted person for the position of second striker, but don't invent, don't put him in a band because he's going to be strangled. The system is essential for you to perform. For example, he has difficulties to play in a 4-3-3 », said his coach at Flamengo, the Portuguese Jorge Jesus, in an interview in Marca .

With the Carioca team - from which Vinicius also came out, two years older than Reinier - in November he became champion of the Copa Libertadores, in which his participation was limited to 20 minutes in the round of eighths against the Ecuadorian Emelec. In league, however, he played 14 games, six of them as a starter.

South American Pre-Olympic

The boy will not immediately join white discipline. He will do it when Brazil's tour ends in the South American Pre-Olympic. If you enter the final phase, as it seems, you will play your last game on February 9. In case of debacle of the canarinha , it will be free of international commitments on the 31st.

Reinier, however, will join the Castilla run by Raúl in Segunda B, a team in which he will play the remainder of the season. As it happened with Take Kubo, now ceded to Mallorca, his status as an extra-community will prevent him from playing under Zinedine Zidane, since the three places are already occupied by his countrymen Eder Militao, Rodrygo and Vinicius. Two players, the last ones, with whom they have a lot in common, since as they have left the Brazilian league young to reach the Bernabéu as star of the future.

Reinier delves into the expansive signing policy that Real Madrid has launched in recent years. Given the growing difficulty of signing consolidated stars on the European scene, due to its scarcity compared to the abundance of clubs with exorbitant budgets - from the greats of the Premier to the PSG, going through classics such as Bayern, Juventus or himself Barcelona-, the white club has launched to incorporate young promises all over the world. The philosophy is to sign galactic futures before they are.

235 million in five years

This is how Martin Odegaard, Fede Valverde, Vinicius, Rodrygo, Andriy Lunin and Kubo have arrived in recent years. Without neglecting, of course, the national market: Marco Asensio, Jesús Vallejo, Dani Ceballos, Álvaro Odriozola, Brahim Díaz and Soro, Zaragoza midfielder. For all those players, in addition to Theo Hernández - transferred to Milan for 20 million euros -, Real Madrid has spent about 235 million in the last five years, according to the Transfermarkt portal. More than half, 125, corresponds to the three Brazilians.

At present, and without counting Reinier himself, Real Madrid has 39 players among those under Zidane and who are assigned to First clubs - also Bundesliga and Premier - and Second. Of these, 20 are 23 years old or younger and only Sergio Ramos, Marcelo, Luka Modric and Karim Benzema exceed 30, attesting to the commitment to rejuvenating the workforce.

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