REAL MADRID starlet Martin Odegaard will remain with loan side Real Sociedad for another year in order to ensure regular first-team football, according to reports.
Spanish outlet AS suggest it is “virtually decided” that the 21-year-old will spend another season with Sociedad after first joining on loan last summer.
Martin Odegaard has impressed on loan at Real Sociedad and is set to spend another year with the side
The report states that the Galacticos have pushed back their planned squad overhaul until next year amid the coronavirus crisis.
Previous speculation suggested Odegaard was viewed as the long-term replacement for Croatian ace Luka Modric in the Madrid midfield.
But the talented star has reportedly decided he would prefer to play more than 30 games in a season for Sociedad in a team where he is a central figure.
Odegaard is a fan of the style of play under boss Imanol Alguacil and wants to help the side compete for a European spot next term rather than fight for game time under Zinedine Zidane.
Sociedad forked out around £1.8million to bring Odegaard to the Anoeta Stadium, and he has bagged four goals and five assists in 25 La Liga appearances this campaign.
It was only a one-year deal and a further agreement will not be reached until the end of the extended Spanish season.
Madrid have the final say on any move but are thought to have a good relationship with Sociedad.
And it appears a deal for Odegaard to stay until June 2021, with similar terms to the initial move, will be approved as it is in the interest of all parties.
The Norwegian wonderkid burst onto the scene and became his country’s youngest international debutant aged just 15 in 2014, before being snapped up by Los Blancos the following year.
Odegaard became the youngest player ever to don the white shirt of Madrid in May 2015, but has struggled to make a sustained impact at the Bernabeu.
Before swapping the Spanish capital for the Basque region and a stint at Sociedad in 2019, Odegaard was shipped out on loan to Heerenveen and Vitesse Arnhem for the previous two seasons.
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Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
