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Real Madrid must give Martin Odegaard time to develop - Jan Aage Fjortoft

Former Norway international and Premier League star Jan Aage Fjortoft has told ESPN FC that there is no need to worry about the progress of Real Madrid starlet Martin Odegaard -- with the 19-year-old playmaker set to go on loan again for the 2018-19 campaign.

Odegaard was just 16 when Madrid beat off competition from some of Europe's richest clubs to sign him in January 2015, and a few months later became the Spanish side's youngest ever player when he replaced Cristiano Ronaldo during a La Liga game against Getafe.

But Odegaard played only a peripheral role during the club's International Champions Cup campaign in the U.