Marca: “Billingham made his final choice between Man City money and Real Madrid history”
Real Madrid has followed in recent years a sporting strategy in which most of the signings that arrive in the dressing room of the first white team give up a lot of money that is difficult to sacrifice in return for joining a club surrounded by history, with a legend that grows season after season and, above all, to an entity. He has a stability that very few clubs can boast of.
This is the path Bellingham chose, as did Vinicius, Rodrygo, Camavinga, Tchouameni and Andrique before, who chose a sporting offer, leaving behind the money frenzy, which seems to have no end in the English Premier League and makes it difficult for other clubs to build their squads, as they have done throughout their history.
It’s not that Real Madrid can’t make good financial offers, but it’s true that all the players we’ve referred to have left behind bigger and better financial offers than those made by the Madrid entity.
Bellingham also had the possibility of becoming an English Premier League star, which he dreamed of as a 16-year-old when he became a Bundesliga player.
However, the English player chose to offer an entity like Real Madrid, a club that every year after year competes for all titles and which in Europe is capable of overcoming any kind of challenge.
Manchester City have offered a much higher salary than Real Madrid could pay him, which doesn’t currently put him in the upper range of the salary scale. The English club has put a clean €15m on the table for each of the next six seasons. In addition to significant commissions, when the transaction is finalized.
Bellingham knows the competition at Real Madrid will be tough. The announced transitional period has not ended due to the quality of Kroos and Modric, who will continue for another season in the white jersey. In addition to the strength of Valverde, Camavinga and Tchoameni. The unknown remains Ceballos, who has a renewal offer on the table from the Madrid captains.
The Englishman will arrive and he will have to go through the adaptation period, but his quality and vision of the game make him a safe bet, a bet that Real Madrid, Manchester City and Liverpool fought, and Real Madrid won in the end.
Source: Marca
