He arrived in 2020 to run La Fábrica and changed everything from top to bottom without leaving a single department untouched. The mission was very clear: produce more players for the first team and generate more money from those who need to leave.
He is delivering beyond expectations and breaking records: three academy graduates recently established and 9 Castilla players getting minutes this season in the first team.
Two transfer windows with record income for the club.
Two years of record title hauls in the club’s youth categories.
He has also created the La Fábrica Designation of Origin: all over the world they want footballers, and they pay well for them with the Real Madrid seal, because they know that besides football quality they arrive shaped by the club’s values and character.
The 50% formula is also his creation, guaranteeing the best can return home for a minimal investment.
The base of Spain’s youth national teams is once again mostly madridista, something that had not happened for decades.
Castilla, in the promotion playoffs in the very tough 1ª RFEF.
And two Youth Leagues in the trophy cabinet, which shows the work is being done right and that great players are coming now that the market is so inflated and expensive.
As a coach he already broke some milestones in the white academy. He knows football like few others in the club and must be given the recognition he deserves.
Don Manuel Fernández