Throwback Photos Of Mbappe And Neymar At Real Madrid Academy For Trials At The Ages Of 13.

Aug 29, 2020 5:56 PM

These two guys are currently playing for Paris Saint Germain but they could have been playing for Real Madrid if everything went according to plan.

Football is a sport that has always been big and it is obviously getting bigger by the day and it looks like a sport that will never depreciate in value.

The game is currently good business and it is so big that clubs have presidents and owners who invest millions. The club has different departments, the players, the management, the marketers and the scout.

The job of the scout is to travel round the world to look for young talents who would become superstars in the future. The essence of this activity is that it is way cheaper to get them young before they grow older and they have to cough out hundreds of millions of Euros to acquire their services.

Neymar and Mbappe are currently worth over 100 million Euros, with Neymar's sale from Barcelona to Paris Saint Germain valued at over 200 million.

It could have cost far less if the clubs bought them at a very young age. This is the reason Real Madrid scouts reached out to these two lads when they were younger.

The coincidence with their trials is that at the time Neymar visited Valdebebas, his idols, Ronaldo and Robinho were current players of the squad and when Mbappe visited, his idol Cristiano Ronaldo was a player. Zidane who recommended him had retired but Mbappe was very much shocked to meet Zidane who is a idol to almost every french footballer.