most likely something in place whereby if he has a serious long term injury before the transfer date, they can lower the initial fee or knock some money off. Sometimes is clauses like that in pre agreed deals
Endrick | Joining Real Madrid in 2024
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yeah, becoming the norm now with madrid and south american kids
Me and LuckyScout have been consulting, and we think he’ll be a smash. Better than Rodrygo/Vinicius, but not quite as good as Neymar.
Seems crazy, depending on how the deal is structured. No guarantee at all he'll develop as expected.
Gotta respect Madrid for buying world class potentials straight at source before greedy middle clubs like BvB get involved trying to ramp up the price after a couple of promising performances.
They did a similar deal for Vinicius years back when he was still 16 and his fee, 60m, was bemoaned at the time for a kid that hadn't even played a handful of matches professionally at the senior level yet. Think he was signed by them 10 days after his professional debut.
Worked out decently for them though.
If it doesn't work out exactly as they hope, they can always recoup a hefty sum from someone else or loan him out elsewhere to develop
He’ll be worth 150m+ in a few years yet people always say these deals are expensive.
And Madrid will continue to dominate with world class young talent
And Madrid will continue to dominate with world class young talent
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agreed but it helps that they mostly dream of madrid/barca anyway!
Golden boy makes me think of a golden retriever
Even if it's a big gamble, he looks very awake for a 16 yo.
My main concern is his height, but I suppose he can still grow up a little bit given his age.
My main concern is his height, but I suppose he can still grow up a little bit given his age.
Yep he literally just turned 16. He’ll keep on growing.
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Whe he was 15 he was too good for the U-17 teams so they played him in the U-20's. He proved to be too good for that level not long after too so they promoted him to the first team at 16
He's played 14 matches as a pro or total of 600 minutes and he's scored 9 goals over those minutes.
He won't join the Madrid first team until summer 2024 per the rumored contract so he'll have time to continue developing in Brazil before coming to Europe at 18
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Standard.
60m doesn’t seem like that much of a risk considering the obvious talent here
if be delighted if United bought him for that
if be delighted if United bought him for that
Guess we'll just have to be satisfied with Mbappe.
When’s he arriving at Stamford Bridge again?
stop winding them up TRBoring, I hate how much pull that club has.
Supporting Real Madrid must be amazing
It’s almost 0 risk considering that pretty much the worst case scenario is him not developing as well as expected and being sold at small loss for Odegaard-like money.
All credit to Perez for that. I think they always had the pull for South Americans but he took it to a new level starting with the Galacticos.
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Whe he was 15 he was too good for the U-17 teams so they played him in the U-20's. He proved to be too good for that level not long after too so they promoted him to the first team at 16
He's played 14 matches as a pro or total of 600 minutes and he's scored 9 goals over those minutes.
He won't join the Madrid first team until summer 2024 per the rumored contract so he'll have time to continue developing in Brazil before coming to Europe at 18
Might be as good as Amad one day too
Just protecting you from Todd’s retribution bud. He’ll go and sign another LB for £60m if you don’t stop bullying him!
Really?
What's to say he a) doesn't develop any further and finds it extremely difficult to adapt to life in Europe, looks like a fish out of water and looks hopeless?
Or b) gets injured due to being played in a mediocre league more than he should whilst still physically growing?
We have seen several success stories from Brazil, yet we have also seen several absolute flops.
I'd say 60mill is hell of a risk.
20m GBP gets you a Nico Williams these days, or some other chump from Liverpools reserves
so for ~52m GBP you get a potential world class forward at a time when there's a shortage
so yeah, I'd say the R/R is pretty worthwhile
of course, there is a chance he is shit.. just like AWB who we spunked a similar amount on, or anyone else we sign
Could be Ronaldo, could be Romario, could be Robinho, could be Pato, could be Denilson. Time will tell. The only thing that matters here is Chelsea got cuckolded again!
It's close to how much they paid for vini and rodrygo, seems to be the rate for Brazilian wonderkids these days and the success rate is much better than some European leagues like bundesliga.
The noise this kid seems to be generating reminds me of mbappe when he was 17
If he's Robinho i'm starting brawls.
If he's Romario i'm dacing naked in the streets.
If he's Ronaldo i'm ascending to a being of pure light.
If he's Denilson i'm setting myself on fire.
RM - hoarders of wonderkids
Called it as soon as he was being hyped up here. Madrid have Brazil's best super young players on lockdown. Vinicius, Rodrigo, they took Reinier although he's out on loan and might not end up that great and now Endrick
You might say the plus side is thats the whole of their attack accounted for now. So if theres a new Brazilian wonderkid, where would they fit in at Madrid? But I wouldnt be surprised if they still signed them and then decided what to do after, send them out on loan or if they think he's going to be better than one of the ones they already have then sell off the old and in with the new.
Its a big risk. But if we look at it Madrid have had much better results signing younger less proven players over the past 5 years or so than older more experienced and established players.
So they might feel more confident about 60 million for a kid instead of 100 million for someone the same kind of tier as Hazard
Yeah, don’t really see the probability of him failing being any higher than our own Antony, who signed for north of £80mn. Or anyone else who are more ready-made but not fully proven. There is ALWAYS risk involved in a transfer and the succes/failure is much more driven by what happens after the transfer than the transfer itself. RM have a darn good track record in that respect.
There's that word again.... potential.
It's a gamble to risk 60million plus, if the actual figures are to be believed, on a player that may turn out to be an absolute turkey next season, he has mere minutes under his belt at senior level.
Jesus for example went for £45m, so there are always options readymade, or Haaland.
It's good forward planning from Real if it pays off, but I don't see many If any other clubs willing to spend huge amounts on a 16 year old (16 FFS!).
It's a massive gamble no matter which way you look at it.
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