Real Madrid set sights on Barcelona superstar as Florentino Perez eyes new Luis Figo saga

Madrid, Spain – Florentino Pérez has reopened the most sensitive wound in Spanish football history, instructing his football staff to prepare a summer 2027 offensive designed to lure Barcelona’s 23-year-old midfield metronome Pedri across the Clásico divide.

Inside the Valdebebas offices the project is already being described as “Luis Figo 2.0,” a reference to the seismic 2000 transfer that saw the Portuguese icon swap Camp Nou for the Bernabéu and altered the balance of power in La Liga for years.

Sources with knowledge of the conversations confirm that Pérez views Pedri as the ideal solution to the vacancy left by Toni Kroos’ retirement last summer, a vacancy that has been exacerbated by the club’s ongoing injury crisis in the engine room.

Barcelona, however, remain unmoved. Pedri’s existing deal carries four full seasons and a €1 billion release clause, a figure Madrid accept is “a non-starter” in any conventional negotiation.

Yet the Merengues refuse to abandon the chase entirely, calculating that a future transfer-window environment—one potentially shaped by financial fair-play relaxations or by Barcelona’s own need to generate liquidity—could yet create an opening.