The unbridled race for Endrick: offer from PSG, immediate response from Real Madrid…

Endrick turned 16 in July. They’ve been talking about him for twelve months. He will not be able to play in Europe until the 2024-2025 season . No matter. The signing of him will be decided in the coming weeks. The unbridled race for the Palmeiras striker has already begun and the outcome looms urgently. Three warm-up times and forty-five minutes in a row have been enough for him to reaffirm what he saw competing with his equals, that is, in the Brazilian there is a soccer player . Time will tell if he will be a star or a reference, but his signing will be as such even if he is still a child , looking like a great footballer, yes.

Fourth game surrounded by professionals and Endrick ‘s first goal , as well as a clear influence on the game of a team like Palmeiras , which is fighting to win the Brasileirao and with the help of the young footballer defeated Atlético Paranaense 1-3 , nothing more and nothing less than finalist of the Copa Libertadores.

There is a rush around the Palmeiras striker. He sounds strange at only 16 years old, but he is the reality of today’s football . Times have advanced and there is no place for the period of formation of a promise. It goes from nothing to everything. The stars are 18 years old and players like Haaland, Vinicius, Rodrygo or Ansu Fati are born with the obligation to be without having matured . And they don’t always succeed.

That urgency comes with that “if we don’t sign him, someone else will come to do it . ” Endrick’s case is no exception. PSG say they have already made an offer of 20 million euros , just half of what the Palmeiras leaders intend to earn. The question is clear. Is there a reaction from Real Madrid? Immediate you can say.

The white club has been studying the operation since Endrick’s parents were in Madrid last season. They stepped on Valdebebas, the Bernabéu and what they found was to their liking . Since that visit, the white club has been to Brazil twice, watching, observing and studying everything that happens around the Brazilian. Next week the striker will have two new exams against Fortaleza and Cuiaba. Everyone will look at the… 16-year-old striker .

Those early reports are positive. The consequence comes in the form of a clear and direct message: “If we think it’s going to be what it’s aiming for, we have to sign it . ” They are on it. It remained to be seen the answer with professionals in front and the test has been passed. In the next few days, Real Madrid, knowing that what the family saw during the visit to Madrid was positive and that the footballer likes the possibility, they are going to send an offer to Palmeiras to ensure the signing of Endrick, who would never reach the Real Madrid before 2024 .

 

The ‘problematic’ with Haaland

The player, his family and the representation company, the same as Vinicius, had a clear starting point: “they will not sign for the club that has Haaland on their payroll . ” They have nothing against the Norwegian, but by the time Endrick can land in Europe, Haaland will be just 24 years old, that is, the whole future ahead of him . One and the other move in the same position, which is none other than center forward.

That was a starting point of any compromise. They consider that once the striker is in Europe what he needs is to finish training, adapt to football in the old continent and that can only come with minutes and confidence . The idea leaves no room for doubt. Both the family and the agents (TFM company) take maximum care of the still young footballer. His run and all his steps are being measured to the maximum.

Real Madrid signed Vinicius in May 2017 when he was two months away from his 17th birthday . Until July 2018 he could not join the discipline of the Madrid team. Rodrygo signed for the white club a year later. The operation was closed in June 2018, when the then Santos striker was 17 years old, having to wait until 2019 to make the jump to the Santiago Bernabéu . One and the other debuted with Flamengo and Santos at the age of 16, but his first goal came when he was 17, a year after the new jewel of Brazilian football.

Haaland has become the reference for many. All teams are looking for that new striker to break it, making a mistake. There will be no other like him and there will be players who show his characteristics and who can be equally valid for top-level teams.

The City striker debuted in the first Norwegian at the age of 15 at the Bryne, in May 2016. 16 games without a goal . Curious. In February 2017 he signed for Molde, scoring his first goal in his debut with his new team on June 4, 2017, at the age of 16 years and almost eleven months. In the Norwegian team he lasted two seasons before becoming part of the Red Bull Salzburg squad, a team with which he made his debut in February 2019. A year later he arrived at Borussia Dortmund at the age of 19 and in exchange for 20 million euros.

Last summer he became a new Manchester City player in exchange for 75 million euros. Clause or not, everything indicates that it is so, his price from the summer of 2024 will be 200 million euros and many others in salary, for a player who rose to fame in 2019 in a Youth World Cup after scoring seven goals against Honduras and that since then has not stopped scoring at Molde, Red Bull Salzburg, Borussia Dortmund and now at City .