According to Football Italia, Juventus are planning to raid Real Madrid in the summer for their left back Marcelo. The Old Lady will offer €45m for Marcelo with a contract worth €12m per year, claims Tuttosport.
Their interest in the Brazilian is not new and is believed to be helped by his strong friendship with former Madrid teammate Cristiano Ronaldo. According to today’s edition of Turin-based newspaper Tuttosport, the proposal is being lined up for the summer. It’ll be a €45m transfer fee for Real Madrid, with Marcelo receiving a salary worth €12m per year. This would be a huge expenditure for a player who will be 31 in May. It’s also be funded by the sale of Alex Sandro, most likely to a Premier League club such as Manchester United, Manchester City or Chelsea.
He has been at the Bernabeu since January 2007 and his current contract is not due to expire until June 2022. So far this season, Marcelo has scored three goals and provided four assists in 22 competitive games for the Merengues.
Meanwhile It’s been widely mooted for a number of weeks that Real Madrid will once again return to Porto in order to sign a talented, young defender, yet Eder Militao’s move to the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu has been delated due to a dispute over a compensatory training fee. Los Blancos have already come to an agreement on personal terms with the Brazilian defender and his representatives, and the Portuguese club had allowed these negotiations to take place, yet the deal has hit a snag.
There are six million euros which stand between what is an acceptable fee for the defender, with Sao Paolo owed exactly that figure as a training fee, as is stipulated in FIFA’s regulations. Porto have argued that the payment must be made by the European champions, however the Spanish club are unwilling to be bullied into a payment that they feel has absolutely nothing to do with them. Their stance is further strengthened by the fact they will have to part with 50 million euros anyway if they hope to sign the 21-year-old.Compensatory training fees can be claimed by a club who has developed a player from the age of 12 to 21, although the payment remains valid until the individual turns 23.
If a player transfers abroad then the buying club must take the responsibility of paying his former club an amount that is determined by FIFA’s own valuation experts. This figure increases depending on the number of years the player in question was at his initial club during those years. It’s this matter which is preventing Los Blancos from officially completing the signing of Militao, although there remains confidence that he will certainly be the second signing in the summer of 2019 after Rodrygo.
Intensive scouting of the Oporto club’s domestic matches has seen those in power at Valdebebas increasingly impressed with the former Sao Paolo centre back. He’s seen as a possible rotation defender with Nacho Fernandez, Sergio Ramos and Raphael Varane, with the expectation being that he will eventually assume the role of first choice defender, rather like Pepe did in similar circumstances.However, before any of that becomes a reality, FIFA must step in and ease the fiscal logjam by making a ruling on just who should pay the six million euro fee, although this can be avoided if the two clubs are able to reach an amicable solution before the summer.