His dip in performance and outcome won't help, not to mention Grealish is British and that will always markup the value. With his dip in performance and outcome this year, I would say 70-80 will be a good fee for Rodrigo. I don't know what (if) formation Alonso would use next year, but I hope the club will talk with Alonso whether to keep Rodrygo as backup to Vini.
That doesn't mean anything. So your assertion that he wasn't signed because he was Sergio Ramos means jack diddly because the club didn't sign anyone full stop.
He just played a match against James, another player with a certain set of specific skills the team was desperately lacking and the club would have done well to fill those voids and provide the manager enough options that a successful season could be reasonably expected. Instead we get the the this is the best team in the world and Mbappe can play anywhere speech (with the complete Mbappe rebuttal of I prefer to play on the left wing).
It was tongue in cheeck but on the other hand the club didn't make any moves when anyone with a functioning eyes and a brain could see that the team needed at least a couple of pieces if it wanted to compete for trophies. The team basically didn't have any starting caliber players on defense the second half of the season apart from Rudiger, had no substitutes and was relying on midfielders to play our of position. The clubs ideas was do nothing because they needed to save some money so Florentino can get his picture taken with Trent Arnold Alexander this summer.... oh, but don't worry we'll just blame it all on Carlo Ancelotti.
The last time Florentino Perez signed a Center back for a transfer fee: •Lamine Yamal was 12 years old •Real Madrid had 13 UCLs •Mbappe was 20 years old •Khabib was still active in UFC •Queen Elizabeth, Pele and Maradona were all alive • Bartomeu was still Barca president
Yeah this is pretty wild. We got really successful and those guys went it to survival mode or something lol