Real Madrid's galactico geriatricos have one final shot at glory after Champions League win over Paris Saint-Germain

Real Madrid's combination of galactico geriatricos have one last shot at glory before the team is set to be broken up this summer. Real went into the second leg looking towards Luka Modric as the key to victory. That is a credit to the original purchase from Tottenham last decade, but it points to a key challenge that Real face.

It is not necessarily a problem, because if they get it right they will improve, but if they fail to adequately manage it, it could derail their title challenges, at home and abroad, for years to come. Ad/> Modric is 36, and the club still want to keep him for another year. Alongside him, Toni Kroos is 32, and doubts over his fitness match reflect that time is starting to catch up with him.

He is not the only 30-something who may be on his way out of the Bernabeu, either this season or next. FootballMamma mia! Mbappe gives PSG the ‘va va voom’ that Real want — The Warm-Up16/02/2022 AT 08:12 Marcelo, a hugely experienced head, has been phased out over the last season and a half, and at 33 it is no longer worth keeping him on a hefty contract. Better to let others take his place in the squad.

Gareth Bale will be coming to the end of his £600,000-a-week deal this summer before he moves elsewhere. By the time the summer comes around, Isco will be 30 and it has to be accepted that he will not fulfil his early promise. Nobody expects any of them to be at the club come August.

They will be joined by others on the way out. Players who have not convinced the club of their worth. Luka Jovic barely got a look-in, but he hardly made an irresistible case.