The environment of endrickthe new prodigy of Palmeiras and of all Brazilian football at just 16 years old, has scheduled a visit to Real Madrid later this month that resonates with the echo that two cracks left today established but who were received by Madrid in Valdebebas to try to incorporate them into Factory. neymar He tried when he was 13 years old (he came to have a federation record and everything) and mbappe He visited Madrid when he was 14 years old and was projected (accurately, given what has been seen) as the next great French footballer. A path that Endrick will now walk.
The visit to Madrid is part of the strategy of Endrick’s father and his advisors to start ‘shaking’ the situation of the new garoto fashionable in the Verdao. A signing that, if we stick to the clause in his recent professional contract at the Sao Paulo entity, would have to be €60 million (or what could be negotiated down). The curious thing is that his compatriot Neymar was not a Real Madrid player… for 60,000 euros. The white club had him on trial at the end of March 2006 in an operation with Wagner Ribeiro, who was his representative and had a good relationship with Madrid because he also handled Robinho’s affairs., almost just landed in Concha Espina. Neymar did not stay for financial reasons, although the club signed him up to play the last stretch of the season, and also because the footballer himself did not feel comfortable leaving home so soon. “I saw myself unable to live outside of Brazil”revealed Ney a few years ago in L’Equipe.
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In the case of Mbappé, His was the idea of Zidane, at the time close to the club but not yet the first team coach, who received a tip of his many contacts at Clairefontaine and French soccer. He invited a 14-year-old Kylian to spend a few days in Madrid, get up close and grant one of his great wishes: to meet Cristiano Ronaldo. A visit that left memorable moments, such as what Mbappé asked the first time he got into the car of zizou…
That was the first time that the paths of Mbappé and Real Madrid crossed although they did not finally join their paths. Then would come the attempt in 2017 when he was already the star of Monaco and the endless soap opera that he has been maintaining since then, culminating last summer with some pumpkins to the white club that shook the football planet. The end point to a story that, having as Mbappé is only 23 years old, maybe it still has more sequels on the billboard in the coming years…
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Circumscribing to the present, Endrick is an option that Madrid handles very seriously. His situation, for obvious reasons, is not exactly what Neymar or Mbappé experienced. He is not unknown like the other two were and the list of applicants to sign him begins to get fatter considerably, with PSG wanting to sink their teeth. The boy’s stratospheric progression (three goals in 307 minutes with the Palmeiras first team) It begins to make it extremely difficult to win the bid if the €60M clause is not put on the table.