Alvaro Morata has vowed to fight for his place at Real Madrid after returning to the Euro champions from Juventus.

The striker made eight La Liga starts before leaving his boyhood club for Juve in 2014 for a fee that media reports put at €20 million.

He won back-to-back league and cup doubles in Italy but Real exercised their buy-back clause on him in June for around €30 million.

Morata was officially presented at the Bernabeu stadium in Madrid on Monday in front of 3,000 supporters.

“I’m at the most difficult club in the world to play and score goals for but I’ll give my life for that because I’m a Real Madrid supporter,” he told reporters.

“It has been a long two-year wait but sometimes you need to mature. I’m here to stay.”

Morata faces the daunting task of squeezing into a dynamic forward line that contains Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema.

“I said I wanted to be where I was wanted and here I am,” he said.

“It would have been easy for the club to sell me and I would have got them money but they have shown faith in me.”

Despite winning a glut of medals in Italy and scoring vital goals in the club’s run to the 2015 Champions League final, including knocking Real out in the semis, Morata was not an automatic starter, making just 27 Serie A starts for Juve.

He scored three goals in four games for Spain at the 2016 European Championship.

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