On today’s video, we explain why Real Madrid abandoned their previous policy of signing the world’s most glamorous players during the 2010s and instead began banking on teenagers with world class potential like Martin Ødegaard and Vinicius Junior as they look to consolidate long-term success in La Liga and the Champions League.
Real Madrid has always been one of the world’s most prestigious football institutions, and at the turn of the millennium set out to match this prestige with a new, glamour-heavy approach to the transfer market. After being elected club president in the year 2000, Florentino Perez ushered in the Galactico era, signing one of the world’s best and most commercially marketable players in each of his first four summers i...
By Euro Football Daily
November 16, 2020
