2023-06-26 15:16:20
After ignoring the siren songs that came from Saudi football, Luka Modric will continue to wear white until June 30, 2024. Real Madrid has closed this Monday the chapter of the renewals that it had pending, making official the continuity of the eternal Croatian midfielder, that he will thus prolong his thousand and one nights defending the Chamartín complex after rejecting a million-dollar offer to join the collection of stars that petrodollars have recently brought to the Wahabi kingdom.
Modric’s will was always to retire at Real Madrid, a team he joined in the summer of 2012 after a tortuous negotiation between Florentino Pérez and Daniel Levy to get him out of Tottenham that even led the Balkan to request the ‘transfer request’ . Incorporated in exchange for 35 million euros, his acclimatization period was not easy and there were those who even dared to point out that he was going to be the worst signing in the history of the merengue entity. A hasty prediction that time has ended up making ridiculous since the Croatian’s talent has allowed him to establish himself as one of the great legends of the club that treasures fourteen Champions in its showcases.
Throughout the eleven seasons in which he has worn the Real Madrid jacket, Modric has played 488 games and won 23 titles: five Champions Leagues, five Club World Cups, four European Super Cups, three Leagues, two Copas del Rey and four Spanish Super Cups. In addition, the little footballer born in Zadar has raised the main individual awards, such as the Ballon d’Or or The Best award for the best player he received in 2018, the UEFA Player of the Year award 2017-18 or the Ballon d’Or of the 2017 Club World Cup. He was also the Golden Ball in the World Cup in Russia and the Bronze Ball in the World Cup in Qatar, also forming part of the FIFA/FIFPro World XI on six occasions.
Despite the fact that he will turn 38 in September, Modric seemed strong enough to continue competing at the highest level and contribute, with his wisdom, experience and leadership skills, to the renovation process undertaken by Real Madrid in its midfield after the signings made in recent years of young values such as Fede Valverde, Eduardo Camavinga, Aurélien Tchouaméni or the most recent Jude Bellingham. However, he did not want the club to offer him continuity as a reward for services rendered in the past, but he wanted to earn it for his present merits.
Tireless
This has been assessed by the entity chaired by Florentino Pérez at the end of a campaign in which Modric once again became a key player in Carlo Ancelotti’s plans. He played 51 games in which he scored six goals and distributed as many assists, and displayed an extraordinary capacity for resistance by missing only three games due to injury in the middle of a grueling course in which he had to face six competitions with his club at We must add their presence in a World Cup in Qatar, where they led Croatia to third place, and in the League of Nations, a tournament in which they recently became runner-up after losing to Spain in the final held in Rotterdam.
Modric’s renewal had been tied weeks ago in a conversation that the Croatian had with Florentino Pérez. Although Saudi Arabia did not give up in its efforts to attract him to the emerging league that has incorporated footballers of the stature of Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema, N’Golo Kanté or Rúben Neves, the Balkan player always put competitive zeal and stability first. family he has in the capital of Spain. One of his objectives is to reach the German Euro Cup at the best possible level, where he intends to put the finishing touch on his impressive career with the checkered team, and nothing better for this than to continue playing an important role at Real Madrid, where from the coming campaign will be second captain and one of the heavyweights of the locker room.
Modric’s renewal allows Carlo Ancelotti to breathe easy, who will have seven top-level footballers to make up the core of Real Madrid, after the continuity of Kroos and Ceballos was also confirmed the previous week. The Italian will have to show off his proverbial management capacity to distribute minutes and rest periods within an overcrowded plot, but the competition is an incentive to raise the level of the group.
The spotlights now point to the front, where Benzema’s march to Saudi Al-Ittihad opened a tremendous hole. As much as the club ensures that the squad is closed with the renewals of Nacho, Kroos, Ceballos and Modric, the signings of Fran García, Bellingham and Joselu and the return of Brahim, there is still a lot of market ahead and the shadow of Mbappé is too much lengthened to close the duties of Real Madrid in a torrid summer that can still hold surprises.
#Modric #extends #thousand #nights #Real #Madrid