Real Madrid continues to sell players while maintaining control over 50% of their roster, and is thus making a lot of money (both real and virtual)

There are teams that have so much talent at their disposal that they don’t know what to do with it. Strange paradox that happens to very few teams in the world, in fact, perhaps only one: Real Madrid. In recent years i White they didn’t miss out on any of the best prospects in world football, investing millions and millions of euros on names like Vinicius, Arda Güler, Endrick, Mastantuono, Huijsen and Carreras – who not only rejuvenated the squad, but also brought victories. Even on the outgoing market, Real has developed a model that is effective on the pitch and profitable in the budgets: the players raised in the Fábrica are sold and generate income, but with clauses that leave Florentino Pérez’s club with a certain control over their cards. This is usually a 50% right on future resale, so that a possible buybackas they say in those parts, is not too expensive. The repurchase, if present in the agreement between clubs as in the case of Nico Paz, allows Madrid to buy back the player by paying half of his release clause. Or to collect, in the future, half of what a third club decides to invest in him. In short, the classic win-win.

Many examples can be given: Nico Paz is only the most famous, but Jacobo Ramón also plays with him in Como. Mario Gila, now at Lazio, is also in Serie A, while in La Liga Madrid has left Kubo to Real Sociedad and Mario Martín to Getafe. In the same situation are Chust (Cadiz), Yusi (Alavés), Chema Andrés (Stuttgart), Arribas (Almería), Marvin (Las Palmas), Álvaro Rodríguez (Elche) or Latasa (Valladolid). They have that thread that binds the players to the Bernabéu. Just in case. For Gila and Antonio Blanco, for example, i blancos they retained 50% of the rights but, in addition, they included a right of pre-emption. Three words that also appear in Kubo’s contract and which are very simple to explain: if the club receives an offer for the player, they are obliged to pick up the phone and call Real Madrid to notify them, so that they can possibly counter. Then maybe he does what he wants, but he must always be informed.

Then there is the buyback option. Dry. Which can be combined with maintaining 50% of the rights, as happens with Víctor Muñoz, who packed his bags in the direction of Osasuna this summer. It started with a buyback option. Like Obrador, at Benfica. And there’s more. Álex Jiménez, former AC Milan right-back, has been sold to Bournemouth but with an option to buy: nine million this summer or 12 million in 2026. It’s a question of keeping an ace up your sleeve. It also happened with Rafa Marín: Real has a buy-back option of around 30 million. You always have to keep a thread. This is how Real Madrid works. Always maintaining a possibility of recovering his jewels in a hypothetical future, you never know. At worst, collect money. And these are also good sums: as he explains Diàrio As in this article, as well as the case of Nico Paz, most of the players sold with this formula end up increasing their market value.