Courtois Reason of Joining Real Madrid

DBasia.news – Thibaut Courtois completed his transfer to Real Madrid from Chelsea, worth 35 million euro. The transfer happened before the summer transfer market ended in England. Courtois’ exit made Chelsea spent 80 million euro to activate the release clause of Kepa Arrizabalaga in Athletic Bilbao.

After announced officially to the public, Courtois made the fans upset by kissing the Madrid’s logo in his jersey. Some Chelsea supporters also regretted how the 26-year-old goalkeeper left with the bad impression, he was absent from the training before joining Madrid. No wonder, they named Courtois as the betrayer.

Courtois agent, Christophe Henrotay, clarified the reason behind Courtois’ move to ease the tension between Chelsea fans. It’s not like Courtois disliked Chelsea, Courtois wanted to be close with his family living in Madrid.

There has been a misunderstanding that he wanted to get a move for the wrong reasons, but he was pushing to go out of Chelsea because of his children. If the family were in London it would have been totally different. He would have stayed, there is no reason to leave a club like Chelsea, he could have won trophies,” Henrotay told Goal.

“Unfortunately, his kids are living with the mother in Madrid. He had the contract and it depended on Chelsea, but running close to the end of his contract, Chelsea had an interest to find a deal with Madrid, which they did.”