It’s marketing, contracts … footballers are more like singers or rock stars than sportsmen with feelings or belonging, a love of the colours. “In the first season at Juventus, Madrid told them well before the end they weren’t going to sign me back,” Morata says. Photograph: Andrea Comas/ReutersBack in Madrid, Morata may win the league too. There is hope in the Champions League as well, despite facing Bayern Munich, the team everyone wanted to avoid. He has started only 10 times in the league, once in the Champions League – away at Legia Warsaw.

Source: The Guardian April 12, 2017 09:00 UTC