
Martin Odegaard’s Real Madrid move revisited 10 years on – and why it didn’t work out
Mop-haired and dressed in jeans and a black-and-white striped sweater, 16-year-old Martin Odegaard looked like a student walking the streets of Madrid. But this was no ordinary teenager. Ten years ago today, Odegaard was in the Spanish capital to be presented as Real Madrid’s new £3.5million ($4.3m at the current exchange rate) signing, the club…