Blancos are the club that best uses the youth sector. From Morata to Jesè passing through Hakimi, here are the incredible names and data of the last twenty years




by our correspondent Filippo Maria Ricci

August 18 – 16:54 – Madrid (spa)

A good cantera serves many things, depending on the club, its ambitions, its level. The base is to form, and try to do it at best. Once the goal is obtained, the destinies of the boys can be manifold. If you are singing to Real Madrid you can be sure of a couple of things: the first is that getting to the first team and staying on it is on a stable basis is an almost impossible mission. The second, however, is consoling: whoever grows to ‘La Fábrica’ has the almost insured football future.

The charge of 166

Last March the Cies Observatory published a truly remarkable study on European nurseries. In the last twenty years, Real Madrid is the club that has formed the highest number of players employed in the 5 great championships of Italy, England, Spain, Germany and France. The total number is 166, 10 more than the second classified, Barcelona. No surprise huh? The boys pulled on a Valdebebas played 1,078,118 minutes in the 5 big championships, those of the Masía 1,043,263. Then there is the PSG (111), then Lyon and Manchester United (103), then to 94 Atalanta and Rennes.

the precious pieces

We started from here to fasten to a second data, which highlights how well it is profitable. According to what was published by AS in these days, Madrid always in the last twenty years has collected almost 470 million euros from the sale of its young people. At the top of this economic pyramid there are the 66 million paid by Chelsea for Alvaro Morata, the 43 paid by Inter for Achraf Hakimi, the 30 of Atletico for Marcos Llorente and Tottenham for Sergio Reguilon. The wretched and unfortunate jesé was sold to the PSG for 25 million. A barely different case: Martin Odegaard was taken in Norway to 3 million when he was 16 years old and resold at Arsenal for 40.

The examples of Carvajal and Nacho

Hakimi was regretted, but was closed by Dani Carvajal, one of those who made it: the child who put the first Valdebebas stone with Totem Alfredo Di Stefano became the symbol of Madrid, with whom he won 6 Champions like Nacho, another Canterano. Carvajal was a year at Bayer Leverkusen, and here too he became the symbol of the ‘Madrid method’, the transfer of the Canterans always maintaining a possibility of repurchase, the famous ‘Recompra’, or a percentage on the future resale. An example in this sense comes from Miguel Gutierrez: the defender’s passage from Girona to Napoli will bring 7 million euros to the coffers of the Blanca house. The Romanist Mario Hermoso when he was sold for 25 million from Espanyol to Atletico brought 12.5 million to Madrid. Nacho was an exception: before going to make cash in Arabia in the team directed by Michel (another Blanco Canterano … one of the ‘fifth of the Buitre) had never worn a shirt different from that of Madrid.

Fruit summer summer

Only in this summer did Madrid sold 7 Canterans by collecting 25.3 million euros and always keeping the opportunity to bring them home in a more or less close future. Here are the names: Rafael Obrador, 2004 left back that Benfica paid 5 million. The same figure invested by Osasuna for Victor Muñoz, a wing of 2003 who made his debut last year with Ancelotti in a clásico. Yusi is another left -back of Moroccan origins, it is a 2005 and Alaves paid 3 million. Chema Andres, another 2005, a midfielder who debuted in the first team last January, went to Stuttgart for 3 million. Jacobo Ramon is also from 2005, he is a plant they call ‘Virgil’ because he remembers Van Dijk, 5 appearances in 3 competitions with Ancelotti last year and now on Nico Paz’s road: he went to Como for 2.5 million. Mario Martin is a 2004 pivote, last year he had been lent to Valladolid with whom he played a lot, now he goes to Getafe for 6 million. The last is Marvel, a central defender born in Casablanca in 2003 and lent a year ago at the Cordoba, in Segunda. It was sold to Leganes for 800 thousand euros.

sporting and economic model

To the 25.3 million of the 7 just mentioned, the 7 million Miguel Gutierrez must be added: the total makes 32.3 million, almost as much as the annual budget of Cantera Blanca, which as estimated in the order of 35 million euros. Figure that may seem a hurrent, but which multiplied for 20 ago 700 million and as we have seen Madrid has collected almost 500 only with sales, without considering savings on the players used, the various income generated by Cantera itself and the money that can be collected in the future: Madrid has a resale percentages for Victor Chust of Elche, Marvin of the Las Palmas, Latasa del Valladolid, to name a few. Unless surprises will not be spectacular collections, but everything helps to increase the revenues of a nursery that is a model. Sporting and economic.





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