Two years before.
Generally, the clubs retire their figures two years later than they owe.
Respect for past glory ends up paying sportingly and financially.
Madrid learned the lesson and, before retirement, sells its figures with a calculated football risk and an indisputable economic benefit.
Although losing Casemiro is giving up the main beam of its structure, Real Madrid remains calm.
It is the personality of a club that is accompanied by an image of solidity.
So much so, that his enemies only think of accusing him of winning.
He'll find it.
It is curious that Vinicius contributes to the image of solidity, a striker who sows chaos wherever he goes, but who has already learned to finish what he starts.
The rivals turn each duel into a battlefield when for Vinicius it is nothing more than an entertaining game.
A timba in which you bet the ball.
You take it away from me and even, if you can, hit me, or I'll get over you and see you later.
To defend the ball Vinicus uses physical, technical and mental speed, but nothing is more important than that obsession that has a single objective: the area.
This boy forgot something very important there when he was little and goes looking for it with a lunatic obsession.
Something will have to say the science of the mind about it.
The truth is that the battle, which begins anywhere, decides the decisive combat in the area.
Maybe not the first or the third or the tenth, but there is so much faith that, sooner or later, he wins the fight and the match.
He began to believe that what he is looking for is a Ballon d'Or.
The different.
Pedri astonishes by other means.
He is a player against the trend and, therefore, fascinating.
He seems to tame the spirited and surly football of these times, to which he submits gently and wisely.
It is one of those miracles, increasingly strange, that football produces to amaze us.
Training is wise.
With the continuous repetitions of it, it creates habits that, finally, are installed in the instinct and allow it to respond to unforeseen events with the speed of a reflex.
This wisdom was given to Pedri.
His football responses do not find solutions by force of habit, but by the natural gift of a superior talent to which football told him all his secrets.
In every game there lives a loose madman called "ball", whom Pedri calls to order and puts judgment with a touch,
as if the next step in a play was always obvious.
But the logic of each answer is known only to him.
If the trend is to play by heart, Pedri invents;
if this is becoming more physical, the antidote to it is to think fast;
if the tactic has taken over the game, he runs off the board to improve the team.
Vinicius and Pedri are the great capital of this League.
The market is a joke.
The market closes this week breaking the seams of economic control.
A few transfers for crazy figures in the Premier, but above all survival operations where you have to activate your imagination to the limit of common sense.
It reminds me of that story I heard as a child in which a guy said that he had sold a sheep for ten million dollars.
"What a great deal," his interlocutor replied.
And the seller closed the conversation: "Yes, they paid me with two hens worth five million."
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