Luka Modric prepares for post-Real Madrid career with shock Championship investment | OneFootball

Real Madrid midfielder Luka Modric has surprisingly been announced as a new minority owner at Championship side Swansea City.

The veteran playmaker is enjoying his 20th season as a professional and is still a regular figure for Carlo Ancelotti's defending European and Spanish champions. The oldest player in Real Madrid's history has managed to rack up 48 appearances across all competitions this term - more than Vinicius Junior, Jude Bellingham or Antonio Rudiger.

Modric has no plans of hanging up his boots this summer but has already begun planning for his post-playing career by investing in Swansea, as Fabrizio Romano revealed.

Romano is at pains to stress that Modric remains "fully focused" on extending his legendary playing career and is adamant that he hopes to extend his Real Madrid contract which is currently set to expire this summer.

Luka Modric has won more trophies on his own than Swansea have lifted across the club's 113-year history / Catherine Ivill - AMA/GettyImages

This is far from the first ownership alteration of the season for Swansea. In November, it was confirmed that club chairman Andy Coleman together with Brett Cravatt, Nigel Morris and Jason Cohen had completed a majority takeover to end the eight-year ownership of Jason Levien and Steve Kaplan.

Yet, the "new era" which Coleman hailed lasted for just four months. The US investor announced in March that he would step down as chairman at the end of the season for personal reasons. Tom Gorringe was named as the club's new chief executive officer (CEO) in April while Coleman will retain his shares.

The reshuffled ownership group have repeatedly stressed the importance of data analysis behind their push to return to the Premier League, and can now count upon Modric's two decades among Europe's elite.

Modric played against Swansea twice during the 2011/12 top-flight campaign before leaving Tottenham Hotspur for Real Madrid. The Swans won the League Cup the following year but dropped out of the division in 2018. The previous six years in England's second tier has seen the club twice lose in the play-offs, but there is no chance of a side currently slumped in 12th escaping the Championship this year.