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many young players are leaving this summer! analysis of real madrid's youth training strategy and the future of some young players

this is one of the main differences between real madrid and barcelona.

although both la liga giants have very successful youth training, it seems that real madrid's youth players have a harder time getting a chance to play for the first team. in contrast, la masia often supplies some young talents to barcelona's first team, such as yamal and kubasi, who are currently in hot form.

last year, a statistics from the cies football observatory showed that real madrid earned 364 million euros from the sale of youth players between 2014 and 2023, making their youth training the fourth most profitable in the world. according to another statistic from the agency this month, real madrid is also the youth training academy with the highest success rate in europe - they have 67 youth training graduates playing for teams in different leagues, while barcelona has only 64.

even so, cies data shows that real madrid only gave youth players 24.6% of first-team playing time, ranking 11th in the top five european leagues.

furthermore, those who make it to the bernabeu first team often have to take the so-called 'carvajal route', moving to another club before returning to madrid via a buy-back clause - as the experienced right-back did when he joined bayer leverkusen in 2012. a year later, real madrid signed carvajal back via a buy-back clause. since then, carvajal has made 421 appearances for real madrid and won 26 trophies.