The future of Spanish-French central defender Aymeric Laporte, the new Euro 2024 champion, remains up in the air; while Saudi media claim the player is putting pressure on his current club, Saudi Pro League side Al Nasrr, to allow him to return to La Liga and sign for Real Madrid, From within the Arab club they deny that there is any movement… nor will there be.
The Saudi media ‘Al Yaum’ claims that Laporte’s agent has reportedly contacted Al Nasrr officials to discuss Aymeric’s departure. The commotion generated would have led to an emergency meeting between the sporting director, Fernando Hierro, the coach Luis Castro and Al-Muhaidib, president of the Riyadh club, who despite everything, maintains hermeticism on the matter and denies that any movement could occur in the short term.
After the success that was for Real Madrid to close the signing of Kylian Mbappé at zero cost after years of courtship, The fiasco of the summer market was to see how Leny Yoro refused to follow the same strategy and accepted the offer from Manchester United which was a good sum for his club of origin, Lille (62 million fixed plus 8 in variables), as well as the opportunity for the young French defender to be a starter from day one. However, bad luck struck him in the form of an injury.
Real Madrid never exceeded the 35 million offer in the case of Yoro, who was a bet for the future (18 years old); with Laporte, a 30-year-old veteran, not only do they not want to pay a high sum, but they also want to tries to get the player himself to get out at zero cost.
An unthinkable option for Al Nasrr who is still determined to improve his squad – he has tempted the Barça striker Raphinha, among others – and above all who wants to make use of the two years of contract left on Aymeric, for which he paid 27.5 million to Manchester City a year ago.
Laporte wants to leave Al Nasrr, preferably to the European champions; and Real Madrid wants to fulfill Carlo Ancelotti’s wishes, who wants to reinforce the central position despite his public message. He only has Militao and Rüdiger, since Alaba is injured and Jesús Vallejo is not in his plans; and Tchouaméni has shown himself to be an urgent and irregular solution.
It all depends on Laporte convincing those in charge at Al Nasrr, for whom the financial issue is secondary, to let him leave for a symbolic amount. According to some reports, Aymeric, who is taking advantage of his vacation before returning to training, He would be willing to give up the 48 million net that he has left to earn in the next two seasons to obtain his freedom letter and sign for Madrid.
