Real Madrid received €20 million for Stuttgart's sale of Chema Andres to Brighton and Hove Albion earlier in the summer, and fans were not really happy about the decision.
There were many things wrong with this transfer. For a fee of just €20 million, they let an obviously talented player leave for a club that always charges extortionate amounts of fees when they eventually sell those players on to other clubs.
It is worth noting that they did all of this without even putting in a buyback clause in the deal for the midfielder, which makes it even worse. That is literally what they do with every single player they want to control the future of. Even with Neco Paz, a player they sold to Como two times, that deal still has a release clause of €80 million, which will expire after next summer.
Real Madrid needed Chema more than they needed the money they got for him
They did not include that with Chema, and whether it was their decision or Brighton's, the fact of the matter is they have no say in his future. If they are to sign him back from Brighton, they would have to pay whatever fee Brighton want them to pay, which is going to be very difficult.
Chema, at the moment, is playing out of his mind for the club. Right now, Chema has won more tackle per 90 minutes and more blocks per 90 minutes than any midfielder in the Premier League.
This is not a comparison of youngsters. This is a comparison of every single midfielder in the Premier League, and that is simply ridiculous. To do this while he is in his first season at the club is remarkable, and it also shuts a lot of people up who say the Premier League is not as easy to adapt to, especially if you're coming from a different country.
Chema is a very similar profile to Rodri, which is why Real should have ended up signing him, because these statistics are proving that Chema was actually ready for top-level football. Yes, he would have made some errors here and there, but the player is legit. His talent is one of the best ones Real Madrid have produced in a very long time. It does not take a genius to figure out that they made a monumental mistake, which they will now pay for, because the exact profile they needed slipped through their fingers.
One of two things will happen in the future. They will either overpay for Chema in a couple of years' time, or they will not sign him at all. Both of these things were avoidable because they had had the chance to sign this midfielder for a very, very cheap amount of money. Now they would not be able to, but hopefully that will be something that they regret because they deserved it.
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