With the Canadian, Madrid can replicate the plan that brought No. 8 from Allianz to the Bernabéu in 2014.
Real Madrid is interested in Alphonso Davies for the 2024 summer transfer window. With just one season left before his contract with Bayern expires in 2025, as MARCA reported, the full-back is still refusing to extend with the German club. As a result, Florentino Pérez might sign him for a fair price.
Thus, the white club would replicate the plan used to sign a Bayern football player nine years prior (summer 2014). Toni Kroos, who also had one year left on his contract, was selected in that situation, and his transfer to Madrid for a sum of money (25 million euros) has since proven to be one of Madrid’s better deals in recent memory. decades.
Madrid intends to do this by using the same strategy it used to recruit Courtois in 2018 and Hazard in 2019 (with very different financial costs and sporting outcomes). Madrid did this in an effort to accommodate the acquisition of important but non-‘strategic’ football players into affordable budgets. The white club is aware that it will have to make significant transfers in those situations, such as those involving Mbappé or Haaland. Therefore, he makes an effort to save money when it comes to footballers who, in spite of everything, might wind up being just as important to Madrid as Kroos or Courtois themselves.
In such situation, there is also a unique method to comprehend Bayern Munich’s business, a team that never transfers a player who doesn’t want to sell. The German club is in a difficult situation if a player stays through the end of his contract without being renewed (which is still up in the air with Davies), as the following year he may go without leaving money in the bank. Bavarian
Madrid and Bayern have tumultuous relations, as recent years have shown. Apart from Alaba, who joined Madrid for free once his relationship with Bayern was exhausted, the Bernabéu and the Allianz have recently exchanged players like Xabi Alonso, James Rodriguez, lvaro Odriozola, Hamit Altintop, and Arjen Robben.
Madrid would have at least two seasoned football players in the biggest club in Germany and would always be a contender to win the European Cup if Davies’ arrival in 2024 is confirmed. The Covid Champions League, played in Lisbon against PSG, was won by both Alaba and Davies in 2020, and the Austrian added another victory to his record while playing for Real Madrid in 2022. Prior to adding four more players already wearing white, Kroos had already won the 2013 Champions League (with a game-winning goal from former Real Madrid star Robben). In addition, Kroos arrived at Real Madrid as a world champion of national teams (Brazil 2014), a situation similar to that of Paul Breitner in 1974, who was the first player to don the jerseys of Germany and Spain, the two footballing heavyweights.