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Some people don t learn from Mbappe and Arnold! Arsenal young player refuses to vote for Real Madrid

4:43am, 1 July 2025【Football】

The curtain of the 2017-18 season fell, and Real Madrid achieved a brilliant achievement of three consecutive Champions League titles despite being unique in football history. However, at this peak moment, the team made a compelling decision: dismiss the meritorious coach Zidane, and the team's star player Cristiano Ronaldo also transferred to Juventus for a high price of 120 million euros. This decision is quite controversial, as Zidane led the team to the peak of history, and Ronaldo was regarded as an indispensable soul figure for the team.

Entering the 2018 summer transfer window, Real Madrid's previous "superstar policy" seems to have changed. This time, they did not introduce focus players like Ronaldo, Bale, J Ronaldo and others as much as they did in previous years. Instead, at the Bernabeu, it is introduced to a Brazilian rookie Vinicius who just turned 18. The team signed the young genius in advance for 45 million euros. Although Florentino invited Brazilian legend Ronaldo to help, the atmosphere on the scene seemed deserted.

At the press conference, Florentino made it clear that Real Madrid will no longer invest heavily in introducing famous stars in the future, but will decide to focus on cultivating their own new stars, such as Vinicius. This statement marks a change in Real Madrid's strategy and looks forward to achieving future success with young players.

In the past few years, in addition to spending 113 million euros to introduce Bellingham in the summer window of 2023, Real Madrid has maintained a low-key signing strategy in other aspects, although it has not completely stayed away from the needs of superstars. In fact, they have achieved quite outstanding achievements in the strategy of "sign-free", such as introducing powerful players such as Alaba and Rudiger through free transfers, as well as highly-watched names such as Mbappe and Arnold.

This method not only makes Real Madrid more powerful in the transfer market, but also makes its former boss feel helpless and heartbroken. Paris Saint-Germain invested 180 million euros to keep Mbappe and provided him with the highest salary in team history, but in the end he failed to retain the talented striker. Mbappe's free transfer to Real Madrid caused heavy losses to Paris Saint-Germain and is still pursuing a 50 million euros wage arrears. After losing Mbappe, Dembele led Paris Saint-Germain to win the Champions League trophy for the first time in history under the guidance of Enrique. This is really a blessing.

At the same time, Liverpool's affairs are also intriguing. After the contract expired, the main right-back Arnold joined Real Madrid as a free agent. If a normal transfer is made, Liverpool can get at least €70 million to €80 million from it, and to introduce a right-back of the same level, they will have to spend at least a considerable amount of money. Real Madrid completely ignores the other party's feelings in these operations, and seems to be happy with it.

According to French media footmercato, Liverpool's main central defender Connate's contract will expire next summer, and he has expressed his unwillingness to renew his contract with Liverpool, and his ambition is to join Real Madrid freely next summer. Obviously, Real Madrid does not need to say much about attractiveness and temptation, but some people choose to reject this temptation.

On June 26, Arsenal announced the renewal of his contract with young player Skelly. The British media Times revealed that as early as the beginning of this year, Real Madrid had invited Skelly, hoping that he could join Real Madrid like Arnold when his contract expires in 2026. However, negotiations failed to make substantial progress, and Skelly firmly chose to stay at Arsenal, with his new contract going forward until 2030 and expected to be one of the world's highest-paid young players. Obviously, Arsenal is well aware of the importance of retaining people with high salaries, and in this regard, Liverpool seems to have a lot of room for improvement.