🤝 Buy 👋 Sell ✋ Keep: What Real Madrid need to do this summer | OneFootball

They may have wrestled the league title off of Barcelona but there are still plenty of areas for improvement at Real Madrid.

Here’s what business they should be doing this summer.

🤝 Buy

Real Madrid may have swept all before them in Spain post-lockdown, but their title triumph in 2019/20 shouldn’t paper over the fact that there are changes to me made in this squad.

With an average age of 27 and five weekly starters all over 30, there’s no denying that sooner or later some of the more established names in the Blancos dressing room will have to look for other employment.

The midfield is one area in particular that needs some fresh blood and Zinedine Zidane should look no further than Eduardo Camavinga.

The 17-year-old has been starring in Ligue 1 for the best part of 18 months now and has proved week after week that he belongs at the very top table of European football.

Rennes won’t want to lose their prized asset on the cheap though, and are expected to stick to their €70m asking price despite the market being affected by the coronavirus.

On the evidence we’ve seen however, Camavinga would be worth every penny.

👋 Sell

Things really could not have gone any worse for Luka Jović at Real Madrid this season.

Brought in last summer at enormous expense, Jović was supposed to be Karim Benzema’s heir apparent and the striker that would finally stop their reliance on the Frenchman as he inched towards his mid-30s.

Almost the exact opposite has come to pass.

Jović scored a grand total of two goals this season after struggling to adapt to Spanish football in the early months and then had his campaign curtailed by a succession of niggling injuries.

But it’s off the field where Real Madrid have become most exasperated with the Serbian.

Jović frequently flouted lockdown rules in both Madrid and back home in Sarajevo, to the point where the country’s president had to issue a warning to the goalscorer.

Patience has never been a virtue at Santiago Bernabéu but the club’s board members are well within their rights to chalk this one off as a €60m mistake and look for something else.

✋ Keep

Watching Gareth Bale go from Champions League-winning hero to Real Madrid pariah has been one of the more unsavoury sights in European football over the past few seasons.

The Welshman has been a permanent fixture on the Blancos bench post-lockdown with his sideline antics becoming front page news in Spain.

With his astonishingly high wage and the coronavirus shrinking the market for players in his category, it’s safe to say that Bale is now virtually unsellable.

Which makes the conduct of his agent Jonathan Barnett and the club all the more embarrassing.

It seems that each party is determined to get the better hand, no matter the consequences, when it would be better to bring Bale back into the fold.

A player of his extraordinary talent should at least be part of the coach’s plans and a man in his early 30s shouldn’t be sulking on the touchline when he’s not picked.

It’s time for everyone to shake hands, move on and give Bale a second chance.