Trent Alexander-Arnold: Are Real Madrid kings of the free transfer?
‘If the best things in life is free’, no one said this summer to 20 Premier League clubs spent 3.1 billion pounds.
The highest level of British football is unique. As the popularity and profits of the Premier League grow, the money given to competing clubs is much more outright than European colleagues.
But Real Madrid proved once again that money can only do a lot.
There is no doubt that the Spanish giants are in their league when it comes to acquiring first -class skills alongside anything or anything.
When Los Blancos signed Trent Alexander-Arnold from Liverpool in June for 10 million euros (£ 8.4 million), the fee was to accelerate the movement, so that it could be recorded in time to play in the Club World Cup.
This meant time for the fourth time in five years, Real Madrid won David Alaba in 2021, Antonio Rudiger in 2022, Kylian Mbappe in 2024 and Alexander-Arnold, who would participate free if he had decided to wait in 2025.
What makes their stacks even more impressive is that they have signed talents from Bayern Munich, Chelsea, Paris St-German and Liverpool, respectively.
La Liga commentator Phil Kitromilides told BBC Sport, Spain’s 36 times the championships came to ignore them is almost impossible to ignore them.
“It doesn’t matter where you come from, it doesn’t matter who you played for before. When you grow up as a child, it doesn’t matter who your team is, that’s the biggest thing you’ll do in your career,” he said.
“Take Trent for example – he was playing for childhood team [Liverpool]. He wouldn’t do this for another club than Real Madrid. This attraction, glory. “
It is not a surprising factor for Real Madrid to sign these players for anything. Interestingly, the players are more often more often than they are not aware that La Liga Club cannot meet, or perhaps they do not want to pay the price for them.
However, they are very enthusiastic to participate, they are willing to run to realize the last year of their current agreements.
Real Madrid has a long and famous background in winning big cups – and the same can be said to download a valuable free agent dating back to 1988, when the German international Bernd Schuster abandoned Barcelona in Bernabeu.
Steve McMANAMAN, Michael Laudrup and Fernando Morientes – a few names that move free of charge.
Kitromylide added: “[In Madrid] Secondly, nothing, absolutely nothing. The club has a brutal desire to win everything, every possible cup. This philosophy helped them to form a mystical aura. The big name convinced the players to transfer their contracts in big clubs. “
