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Odegaard leaving Real Madrid again is an indictment of a club that doesn’t really care about young talent – ESPN.co.uk
Martin Odegaard didn’t want to return early to Real Madrid from his loan and in the end, he’s off to join Arsenal due to lack of opportunities.
Most players call going to Real Madrid a dream; Martin Odegaard called it “no drama.” The truth is that it wasn’t what he wanted — not yet — but when the phone rang in August 2020, he had little choice but to return to Valdebebas and the club he’d first joined five years earlier as a 16-year-old. Five months later, he has gone again: signing for Arsenal on loan.
In the summer he will be back, or so they say. And then he can start again. For now, though, he’s gone, taking a sense of missed opportunity…
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