Real have reopened talks with Sergio Ramos in hope that he will stay

Sergio Ramos is considering going public over
his desire to leave Real Madrid as his war with
the Spanish club’s president Florentino Perez
continues to escalate.
The club could look to ward off any official
Ramos statement by reopening contract
negotiations with the player but the fear is that
bad blood between the two sides have now
taken the dispute beyond the parameters of
stalled contract talks.
In comments that will only serve to raise
Manchester United’s hopes of landing the player
Ramos’ departure was described as near
inevitable on Tuesday by Pedro Riesco who
works alongside the player’s brother and agent
Rene Ramos.

Riesco told Radio Marca: ‘With everything that
has happened it will be very difficult for Sergio
Ramos to stay at Madrid.’
Since the player admitted privately that he
wanted out of Madrid after falling out with
president Perez he has been subject to a smear
campaign by media that Ramos believes are
being directed by the club’s president.
Riesco added: ‘Sergio is a symbol of this club.
He has nothing to prove. But so many things are
being said about him. There is so much
manipulation to discredit his name via
spokesmen who behave like puppets saying he is
not respecting the club and that he is just a
money-grabber.’
Ramos tweets in both Spanish and English and
as captain he is also one of Real Madrid’s more
vocal players but until now he has maintained a
public silence.

He is being advised to break that silence and
make it clear to Real Madrid supporters that his
argument is not with the club but with the man
running it.
Over 74 per cent of supporters said in a survey
of around 12,000 fans that they did not want to
lose the player in order to bring in David de Gea.
Ramos remains popular with the Santiago
Bernabeu faithful despite his current flirtation
with United.
The battle over Ramos' future centres on the
players contract with the club that runs until
2017 and sees him pick up €5.5m (£3.9m) net a
season.
Ramos believes he is worth almost double that
sum and cannot understand the club’s reticence
towards negotiating an extension when he has
now entered the last two years of his contract.
President Perez is reluctant to make the captain
the club’s third top earner after Cristiano
Ronaldo and Gareth Bale because he is wary of
the power he has in the dressing room and with
the club’s supporters.

Ramos was one of those players opposed to
Jose Mourinho staying as Real Madrid manager
beyond his third season and he also publicly
backed Carlo Ancelotti after Perez sacked the
Italian. Perez doesn't like his players influencing
who he selects as his manager.
The president's public stance is that anyone
wishing to sign the defender would have to meet
his €200m buyout clause, but a sum closer to
€60m is understood to be a figure the Spanish
club would accept, especially if it helped free-up
De Gea sooner rather than later.
If Real sell Ramos they will look to two players
who have also been Manchester United targets
to fill the gap.
Athletic Bilbao’s Ayemeric Laporte recently
became a Jorge Mendes player and is available
for €42m and Valencia’s Nicola Otamendi is also
under consideration.