Croatian Luka Modric, Real Madrid midfielder, received a huge offer from a Saudi club, in order to include him, during the upcoming summer Mercato.

There has been strong news recently regarding the Saudi club Al-Nasr’s desire to include Modric, a few months following signing Portuguese legend Cristiano Ronaldo in a free transfer.

This comes at a time when Modric confirmed his desire to continue with Real Madrid for an additional season, knowing that his contract will expire next summer.

Despite Modric’s great desire to continue with the “Merengue”, the Royal Club has not yet opened the line of negotiations with him to renew his contract, unlike German Toni Kroos, French Karim Benzema and Spaniard Nacho Hernandez.

A huge Saudi offer to include Modric

According to the Spanish newspaper “AS”, Modric received a huge offer from a Saudi League club, worth 50 million euros, in exchange for signing for two seasons.

And the newspaper, which is close to Real Madrid, stated that the huge salary that Modric will receive will be net of taxes.

The “AS” newspaper did not reveal the name of the club that made this offer, but expected it to be either from Al-Nasr or Al-Hilal.

What did Modric do with Real Madrid?

Modric joined Real Madrid in the summer of 2012, from Tottenham Hotspur, for 22.50 million euros.

During 11 years, Modric became one of the legends of Real Madrid, due to the great history he achieved, if he participated in 478 in all competitions, during which he scored 37 goals and provided 77 assists.

The Croatian magician was crowned with Real Madrid with 22 titles, led by the European Champions League 5 times and the same from the Club World Cup, in addition to 3 Spanish league championships.

To live old, live urban. This adaptation of the saying might be the conclusion of a study by the Association of Rural Mayors of France (AMRF), entrusted to the geographer Emmanuel Vigneron. “Update” of a previous study published in 2020, which revealed a difference in life expectancy of up to 2.2 years in favor of men living in very rural areas compared to those in the center of large cities, it shows a worsening of this gap for 30 years, despite a “cyclical” improvement linked to the high lethality of Covid-19 in denser areas.

While rural and urban “were equal in 1990, the situation observed in rural departments in 2022 is comparable to that measured before 2010 in urban areas: i.e. a delay of 15 years”. This means that over the past 30 years, life expectancy “has improved twice as fast in the city as in the countryside”. Access to care, facilitated in cities compared to medical deserts, is one of the ways to explain this gap.

Strong regional disparities

Thus in Puy-de-Dôme, the comparative mortality index (ICM), of 91 in Clermont-Ferrand, continues to increase as one moves away from the city. The study also highlights “marked differences between rural departments and urban departments”. On the scale of the 1,666 living areas, the main mortality risk factor in France remains the regional geography, the north registering an ICM and a risk much higher than the national average.

The study also reveals “edge effects” with areas of excess mortality located “at the boundaries of the departments and very often at the margins of the regions straddling two or three departments”, areas qualified as “neglected”. The AMRF, which regularly warns of medical deserts, makes several proposals, such as facilitating the installation of health professionals with a view to their better geographical distribution. In total, the study counts “14,216 more deaths per year in rural areas than would be expected if life expectancy there were identical to that of cities”.