As a sought-after super talent, Martin Ödegaard was once drawn to Real Madrid, where he also failed in a second attempt. Before the reunion in the Arsenal jersey, it’s time to look for the causes.
A 16-year-old with tousled hair and a striped basic long-sleeved shirt. Next to him, representative Emilio Butragueno in a fine suit. The fact that things might have happened a bit quickly for Martin Ödegaard at Real Madrid and that it somehow didn’t quite fit yet was already apparent when he was introduced.
A few months later, the highly talented Norwegian’s first substitution was staged on an even larger scale, when half of Europe’s football nobility were chasing him. Of course, it was a high-flying substitution for Cristiano Ronaldo. You can’t overload a boy like that much more.
