The situation
The nationalization of Vinicius (22 years old) represents a strategic relief thinking about the transfer market. In fact, this allows the club to plan a policy of possible reinforcements for the next contract window, set for next January. As is already known, this past summer there were options to sign Gabriel Jesus and Sterling, whom City had for sale for the signing of Haaland. Madrid did not make a move for any of them since they occupied a non-community place (one as a Brazilian and the other as an Englishman), since Vinicius, Militao and Rodrygo occupied the three allowed places. The club was informed that there was a lot of traffic jam in the Department of the Ministry of the Interior in charge of these matters, and that they could not advance anyone on the list of nationalizations for being Madrid players. It even slipped that until Christmas there would be no option to fix any of the cases. But on the subject of Vinicius, the situation was already bloody, given that he arrived in Madrid in June 2018, so he had been residing in the capital for more than four years without this giving him the option of having a community passport. In the Valdebebas offices there was talk of comparative offenses with cases such as Lorenzo Brown, in basketball, or Laporte, in soccer.
The details
But the matter has a perfect nuance for Ancelotti, given that there is now a free place for a non-EU national and that will allow in January, depending on how the season goes and depending on the things that happen in the Qatar World Cup, to sign a player if the injury situations of the staff required it. In principle, the club’s plan is not to go to that market, but it is assumed that after the World Cup players like Benzema, the only pure center forward in the squad, may need a replacement to give him air and rest for the decisive straight end of the season in which the titles will be played once the World Cup hangover has passed. And note that this does not end there. The nationalizations of Militao and Rodrygo are also close,so the same for January Madrid is clear to occupy the three places of non-community foreigners.