Madrid just doing their usual, when it comes to the glamour transfer game. They never get the player right away. They spend a year or so marking their territority, and pretty much letting everyone know, that the so-called glamour is gonna be there's and there's only.
They feed bs stories to their mouth piecie(Marca), and if they sense that the club doesn't want to sell or gonna be a problem. They go on full assault, feeding bs stories after bs stories, doing everything possible to fukk up the relationship between, player and club.
They really are the masters, they will do anything to get what they want. But right now is not the time, this is just the feeling out phase for them. Just seeing what is what, and how they need to play it.
I can see Spurs becoming to Madrid, what Arsenal was to Barca in the early 2000's. If Spurs play it well, they build a pretty damn team, off the back of Madrid foolishness.