Football NewsThe 9 great forwards that Real Madrid let escape
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The 9 great forwards that Real Madrid let escape

Football News
07 Aug 2022
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Borja Mayoral’s departure to Getafe is now official. One more youth squad that leaves the club because he does not have minutes against the cast of stars that the team has up front . Either because they don’t give the level when their opportunity comes, because they don’t want to be relegated to the bench or because they don’t give them the opportunities and confidence necessary to perform at their highest level. The truth is that in recent years great forwards who have had to emigrate in search of minutes have passed through Madrid’s academy . The list is already beginning to be extensive, waiting to see what happens with Mariano. These are some of the strikers who went through the lower categories and who have triumphed far from the capital.

Borja Mayoral (25 years old)

The striker from Parla is the brand new signing of Getafe for the 2022-2023 season . Signed for 10 million euros, the youth squad has abandoned the white discipline after arriving in 2007, when he was barely 10 years old . With the first team he scored seven goals in the 2017-2018 season, the only one in which he was part of the Madrid squad. He is a player who has gone through almost all the lower categories of Madrid , standing out in his youth for scoring up to 15 goals in the Youth League (the so-called youth Champions League). Since 2017, when he was 20 years old, he has stringed together loan spells at Wolfsburg, Levante, Roma and Getafe (in that order), making decent numbers over the years,especially in his first season in Rome, in which he scored 17 goals despite not being the undisputed starter.

Raul de Tomas (27 years old)

Another player who has gone through a large part of the lower categories of ‘La Fábrica’ . His numbers with Real Madrid Castilla were decent: 14 goals in two seasons, and another 8 previously with Madrid C. However, he barely played a few minutes against Cornellà with the first team in the 2014-15 season, precisely with Carlo Ancelotti on the bench . He was on loan from Madrid in Córdoba, Valladolid and Rayo Vallecano. In 2019, still owned by Madrid, he decided to leave for Benfica for 20 million, but his stay in Portugal only lasted half a season. He is currently at Espanyol, and his numbers so far are 74 goals in the Second Division and 35 in LaLiga.