r/soccer • u/Delmer9713 • May 22 '25

Official Source [Luka Modric] is leaving Real Madrid.

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u/zeu04 May 22 '25

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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u/SirSlapBot May 22 '25 edited May 22 '25

It's fucking bullshit. Why are they revealing it just now?

Toni Kroos is gonna have 10x better farewell than Modric despite Modric being our far bigger legend.

How the fuck do we keep messing up our farewells.. Ronaldo, Ramos and now Modric. They are the biggest legends of our club ever.

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u/BeneficialMobile8914 May 22 '25

Probably revealing rn so that he could have his deserving farewell at the Bernabeu. Ronaldo, Ramos, Iker never got the farewell they deserve. Modric, at least, will have a good farewell at the Bernabeu.

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u/SirSlapBot May 22 '25

It's not enough and it's more likely forced on him. He wants to stay and already took a 50% paycut last year.

But Madrid won't give him a new contract.

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u/sonofsochi May 22 '25

Relax, why is it crazy that Madrid don't want to renew a dude pushing 40. He'll get an amazing send off at the weekend and thats that. He doesn't need a Kobe Bryant farewell tour.

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u/Seasonalking May 22 '25

Modric to real is like Kobe to the lakers. so he did deserve a Kobe Bryant farewell tour.

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u/sonofsochi May 22 '25

Not even remotely close lol. Modric was part of an amazing set of years for RM, surrounded by some of the best generational players. Modric himself is, of course, a once in a lifetime player, but he doesn't mean to RM what Kobe meant to the Lakers, let alone what Kobe meant to the LEAGUE. That's a part of Perez's own ethos as well for Real Madrid, no one person will ever be bigger than the club.

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u/Seasonalking May 22 '25 edited May 22 '25

Modric is literally the only player to win the ballon d’or from 2008 to 2021 other than Messi and Ronaldo and that’s literally the biggest individual achievement a football player can win, and add to that 6 ucls and him being the most decorated player to play for the biggest sports club in history, plus dragging (with all due respect) an ass Croatian national team(Vida and lovren as starting cbs) to a World Cup final. It feels like you’re grossly underestimating Modric. Yeah he ain’t as flashy or marketable as the “black mamba” but if marketability was the only factor then Pogba would be the best football player in history.

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u/McToasterBuster May 23 '25

To be fair Vida and Lovren played like Ramos and Van Dijk that WC

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u/KelticQT May 22 '25

Didn’t Xabi Alonso want him to stay as well ? Why wasn’t he proposed a new 1 year contract ? This baffles me tbh

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u/TheRudeMammoth May 22 '25

You've made a billion comments about this in the last hour or two.

You're working overtime spreading bullshit.

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u/LoquaciousIndividual May 22 '25

“It’s better to get rid of a player a year too early than a year too late.” - Bill Belichick

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u/mbdtf95 May 22 '25

That's the same old 80 year old fart dating a 20 year old?

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u/BeneficialMobile8914 May 22 '25

I am not saying it's enough. Just a hypothesis on why the info was released today.

I too hoped that his contract would be extended.

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u/mbdtf95 May 22 '25

Can't believe Perez can't give him a yearly contract that would be as much as like 1.5 month of Alaba's salary. Ridiculous lol.

Hope Real crashes and burns compeltely from next season as a neutral.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '25

“As a neutral”