Real Madrid extends their contracts … with two weeks! What is the reason

Article by Daniel Grigore – published on Thursday, 01 May 2025, 15:20 / Updated Thursday, May 01, 2025 15:20
Real Madrid will extend the contracts of the two players with maturity in the summer, Luka Modric and Lucas Vazquez, enough to play in the World Club Championship, scheduled to end on July 13.
Luka Modric (39 years old) and Lucaz Vazquez (33), two of the veterans and captains of Real Madrid's group, have contracts in force only until June 30, 2025.

Real Madrid extends their contracts … with two weeks!
To have available at the World Club Championship, competition scheduled in the US between June 14 and July 13, Real Madrid will extend their contracts by two weeks, enough to have them available in the event that they would reach the upper stages of the competition.
It is a portion allowed by FIFA, the organizing forum of the competition, to solve this kind of situations.
At the World Club Championship, Real Madrid was assigned to a group of Hilal, Pachuca and RB Salzburg. The current contracts would allow Modric and see to play only in the group stage, not the eliminatory ones.
As for the next season, It seems more likely to see and Modric to leave Real Madridaccording to the daily AS. Lucas Vazquez is like leaving, considering that Madrid is expected and Trent Alexander-Arnold, who will compete with Dani Carvajal for the position of holder.
There is some chance that Modric will receive the extension offer for a season, but the balance does not inclined for the moment in favor of the Croatian, with Real Madrid looking for a change of lines in the middle. Among the new faces might count Martin Zubimendi from Real Sociedad.
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And Jesus Vallejo (28 years old) will expire the contract on June 30, but the central Spanish defender does not play and is not part of the club's plans, so he will be left.




