While FCBarcelona was working to keep Lionel Messi, defending champion realmadriden was quietly making moves to get ready for the Spanish league season. | IOLsport
MADRID — While Barcelona was working to keep Lionel Messi, defending champion Real Madrid was quietly making moves to get ready for the Spanish league season.
The club loaned and sold several players who coach Zinedine Zidane was not planning to use this season, with the only major question mark remaining over whether Gareth Bale will stay for yet another season. The 31-year-old Bale, whose last Spanish league goal with Madrid was scored in September 2019, has a contract with the club until 2022.In addition to Rodríguez’s sale, Madrid also transferred right back Achraf Hakimi to Inter Milan for a reported fee of €40 million .
Promising youngster Martin Odegaard finished his spell with Real Sociedad and is expected to stay with Madrid to help make up for the absence of Rodríguez at midfield.
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