“We are going to sign you no matter what.” This is the promise that the Saudi investment fund made to the Brazilian’s agents last summer after Madrid refused to negotiate. Now, his renewal with Madrid is underway.
The terms that Saudi Arabia is offering Vinicius to tempt him have already been recounted in this newspaper: 1,000 million for five seasons, that is, 200 million net per year. The best contract that any athlete has ever signed in history. That is for the player. What was for Madrid could not be raised last summer, when several representatives of the Saudi investment fund that promotes the 2034 World Cup wanted to meet with the white club. First, with Florentino Pérez. He refused to hold the meeting and referred the envoys to a meeting with José Ángel Sánchez, which finally took place via telematics. In it, the general director of Madrid refused to negotiate and referred the Arabs to the 1,000 million of Vini’s termination clause.
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“There is no rush,” the Saudis told the Brazilian’s representatives. “We are going to approach this operation as a long-distance race like the one that ended with Mbappé at Real Madrid,” they assured. And the example is scary since in a certain way it is true. Madrid began talking to Mbappé in 2017 and has not been able to sign him until 2024. Florentino knows well how the time is marked in this type of galactic operation. The fundamental thing now is not to allow Vinicius to approach the end of his contract, which currently expires in 2027, and that is why he has already made a move by asking Vinicius’ agents how much money they want to renew. An unequivocal sign that Madrid does not want to get rid of the most unbalanced player on the planet with permission from Mbappé and, even more so, being the current The Best.
There will be more movements in June.
According to AS, Saudi’s offer is still latent, but no further action has been taken after what happened last summer, which was very serious. The only thing that remains is the promise from the Arabs that from June onwards they will be back at it, knocking on Madrid’s door, this time, yes, to make a big offer that could be around 300 million euros. “We will sign him no matter what,” Saudi tells Vini’s agents emphatically. And they are regularly monitoring the situation. After Vinicius won The Best, they were even more interested in signing him.
The fact that Madrid’s move to renew Vinicius has become known plays against the club, which knows well how bad the ego battles of the stars can be for the dressing room if they start looking at each other and thinking about who earns more or less. But the club cannot let a strategic player like the Brazilian not feel comfortable and decide to run out of his contract to leave for free in a couple of years, as Mbappé did.
Madrid not only has to deal with Vini’s renewal, which is his turn, as he is about to enter the penultimate year of his contract and it is the norm for the club to negotiate extensions for strategic players when they reach that limit, but also that of Bellingham, who aspires to have the star status that he has on the field also in the salary scale. And the Englishman is not on time, as his contract ends in 2029, but he deserves it. As for Vinicius, if there is one thing that Real Madrid is clear about, it is that it found a diamond for 45 million euros and it cannot let him go. Buying a player like that on the market would not cost a fortune, it is that it is impossible because it does not exist. And the white club has it.
The good news is that the love is mutual. Vinicius knows that his place is at Real Madrid. He is still hungry for titles and individual awards and Madrid is the best place to do it… But, backed by his performances and that real offer from Saudi Arabia, he wants to negotiate the best conditions for himself now that it is time for him to renew.