Operation Madrid 2014: Perez seeks to sign super-youngsters in an economical masterstroke
Real Madrid have not been able to attain the success that their Spanish counterparts Barcelona have so gracefully achieved time after time for the past few years. Competitive by nature (some people may call it jealousy), Real have come up with a new strategy
that will look to establish itself as the Galacticos Movement of the new era.
Under the terms of the Galacticos era, Florentino Perez, President of Real Madrid, did whatever it took to sign one ‘super player’ at the end of every season no matter how much it cost the club. Perez knew how to raise the money, and went about with his
plan effectively. The latest Galactico was http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Cristiano-Ronaldo-c9629 himself, costing the club around 80 million pounds.
This strategy did gain Real considerable success, but Perez has realized that if he wants Real to be the best team in the world, then he’ll have to sign on much younger players, players that could develop, grow and achieve at Real what the Galacticos failed
to.
Cue the Lux Aeterna.
Welcome to Operation Madrid 2014.
With a name so military, you’d expect Perez to don on a toothbrush moustache any second. It’s quite aptly named though, with the football transfer market bustling with strenuous activity and critical decisions being made throughout the year; the footballing
world is now nothing less than the sporting equivalent of the political world.
When Perez finally realized that it’s the influx of young players from their academies that makes Manchester United and Barcelona so much different and more successful than Real, he didn’t seek to improve Real’s academies. He did what he does best and came
up with a strategy to buy the best young players that are out there today.
According to Perez: ‘It’s best to give 30 million for an 18 year old than to give 70 million for a 28 year old.’
And it does make sense. The operation’s main objective would be to make sure that Real Madrid are top of the world by 2014. Currently, there are 5 players that have been accidentally named for the Operation, in a list that was leaked on to one of our sources.
This list includes the likes of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Arsenal-c38429, and has been linked with Real Madrid already.
The list also includes http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Iker-Muniain-c16816 (18) from Athletic Bilbao, who is already priced at $30 million.
Rafinha Alcantara should be the hardest of these to get a hold of considering he’s an aspiring teenager at Madrid’s rival club, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604.
Although Perez’s move does seem economical, it is based almost entirely on speculation. While the Galacticos Era involved buying players that had already established themselves as amazing world-class players, Operation 2014 basically is just ‘assuming’
that these players would be the ones achieving football glory in the future.
There’s just as good a chance that these players would tumble to decline instead of attaining the glory that Real dream of. It could either end up being an economical masterstroke, or an economical suicide.
Of course, there won’t be as much revenue generated by these relatively less-famous football players due to merchandise sales; and they won’t make as great a difference to the attendances at the Bernabau either as was the case with Beckham and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ronaldo-c31734.
Then of course, there’ll be the huge insurance costs attached to these players. Younger players means higher insurance costs, and there’s a greater risk that these younger players would sustain long-term injuries, because they haven’t yet completely developed
into mature footballers.
I’m sure somebody, somewhere, is already planning insurance fraud.
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