FOOT MERCATO ANNOUNCES: THE PEAK IS LA FABRICA NOT LA MASIA

According to Foot Mercato's report; the giant rivalry between Spanish football's two eternal rivals Real Madrid and Barcelona continues at full speed not only on the green pitch but also in the youth academies. A comprehensive study published by CIES just before the El Clasico struggle, which the whole world awaits with a great excitement, laid bare the surprising statistics and deep philosophical differences between the La Fabrica and La Masia academies with all its nakedness. In this special report focusing on the number of academy graduate footballers playing in Europe's 5 big leagues, it remarkably emerged that the capital squad's academy La Fabrica left the Catalan giant's world-famous academy La Masia behind. Looking at the current data, exactly 40 talented footballers raised from the Real Madrid academy are currently playing actively in the 5 big leagues at the peak of Europe. On the other side, 34 names coming out of the Barcelona academy continue to struggle at this elite level. Beyond the numbers, the fact that the two giant clubs have completely opposite philosophies from each other regarding evaluating young talents attracts the attention of football authorities. The Catalan giant Barcelona adopts providing maximum sportive benefit from its own resources as a basic strategy by integrating La Masia patented young stars directly into the first team squad. In contrast to this, the Real Madrid management prefers to provide a serious financial income to the club by generally selling La Fabrica graduate players with high fees and to keep the buy-back rights of the players in its hands. As a matter of fact, it is reported that the capital squad obtained a giant income of approximately 200 million euros from the sales of former and new academy players only in this summer transfer period. When both the on-pitch contribution and the economic return are taken into account, the question appearing in the minds of football fans and experts, "Well, which academy is actually better: La Masia or La Fabrica?" started to be discussed much more than ever.

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