Real Madrid: 5 burning questions after the completion of the 2020-21 season

Which players will leave Real Madrid this summer?

Last season, Real Madrid didn’t lose any significant first-team players. Their biggest sales were promising young players in Oscar Rodriguez, Jorge de Frutos, Achraf Hakimi, and Sergio Reguilon. In each of those cases, they own a percentage of the player’s rights, have the right of first refusal, or outright have a buy-back clause they could invoke.

Los Blancos also made a lot of loans in Reinier, Takefusa Kubo, Dani Ceballos, Gareth Bale, Brahim Diaz, and Borja Mayoral in the summer and both Luka Jovic and Martin Odegaard in the winter. Out of those players, only Mayoral is expected to be purchased by the club that acquired him on loan. Ceballos and Bale will be actively on the transfer list, while Jovic could also be sold.

The real issue Madridistas have is with some of the players on the squad who are either in decline or don’t quite meet the standard of the club. Mariano Diaz is the one who falls in the latter category, while Isco and Marcelo are players whom many fans are attached to but acknowledge must go for the greater good of the club.

Can Real Madrid find teams willing to acquire Isco and Marcelo, noting their wages? How about Mariano, who resisted a loan move to Benfica last summer due to the potential of a pay cut?

Real need to clear out space on their wage bill and roster for another summer “Revolution”, but in this economy, they may have to make some compromises with other clubs in order to move some of these players.