“It’s the butterfly effect”… If you’re Warren Zaire-Emery’s age, the first words of Bénabar’s eponymous song, released in 2008, might mean nothing to you. But the artist could update it after the departure of Karim Benzema for Saudi Arabia. Because the golden exile of the Real Madrid striker at Al-Ittihad risks causing a nice traffic jam on the center-forward market this summer. Without the departure of its captain, the Spanish club, absolutely not a seller, would simply have sought an effective lining for the People’s Golden Ball.
Since the departure of Gonzalo Higuain, already 10 years ago, the fourth top scorer in the history of La Liga has systematically wrung out the competition, from Alvaro Morata to Luka Jovic, via Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez. And we are not even talking about Mariano Diaz, effective during his loan to Lyon, but who will leave the same mark at the Santiago-Bernabéu as Julien Faubert or Royston Drenthe.
“There are four attackers who are leaving [Benzema, Diaz, Hazard, Asensio], calculated Carlo Ancelotti after the final game of the season against Athletic Bilbao on Sunday (1-1). So we have to get our hands dirty, and we’re going to do it, but without rushing, because we have enough time to deal with it calmly. »
No offense to “Carletto”, “calm” and “mercato” are two words that go very badly together. We are going to ask ourselves a little to analyze the market for n°9 in Europe.
Which attackers for Real?
With or without Benzema, the White House had planned to get Joselu back on loan. Third top scorer in La Liga this season with 16 pawns, behind Lewandowski (23) and KB9 (19), the former Castilla player prefers to return to his former club than to go down to D2 with Espanyol. Logic… But at 33 and despite fresh Spanish international status, Joselu does not display the pedigree necessary for a starting place at the Bernabéu, alongside the Brazilians Vinicius and Rodrygo. Harry Kane yes, even if he is not the partridge of the year either.
At almost 30 years old, the captain of England is tired of not winning anything in selection like at Tottenham, where he has only one year of contract left. brand evokes a transfer around 80 million euros which could satisfy all parties.
According to the English press, the Spurs would console themselves with the Japanese Kyogo Furuhashi, top scorer in the Scottish championship (27 goals) in the colors of Celtic Glasgow, whose coach Ange Postecoglou signed this Tuesday in the London club. As luck would have it…
And Mbappé and Haaland in all this?
With all due respect to the brave Harry, his arrival in the Spanish capital will be less exciting than if the prodigy of PSG or the golgoth of Manchester City landed. The new season of “Kyky in Madrid”, however, should not start for a few weeks. The Frenchman assured that he would stay in Paris next season but put pressure on his club by still not lifting the option which would postpone his end of contract by one year, currently set for June 30, 2024. And he’s able to start a fire at any time, he’s already proven that
There would also be a big string in the “deal” which links Haaland to City, until 2027. An exit clause of 200 million in 2024, “Special Real”, is mentioned in Spain, but denied in England… The chatterers of “El Chiringuito” have not finished making tons on the subject(s).
What’s “new” at PSG?
In Blue, we see him mostly moving on the left side (when we see him). But according The Team, Luis Campos perceives Marcus Thuram as the perfect number 9 for Paris, where he would find his friend Mbappé. Other avenues (Atlético de Madrid, Inter Milan, etc.) are also available to Khephren’s brother, followed a few months ago by the insatiable Chelsea, who should attract another French Bundesliga striker, Christopher Nkunku (Leipzig).
He too plays in the Bundesliga, and like Thuram, he entered the World Cup final, for the scenario that we know: Randal Kolo Muani, the Eintracht Frankfurt striker, is in the small papers of the leaders Parisians, to which he has just responded in a rather “cash” way, at the Canal Football Club, while kindly qualifying their interest as “flattering”.
“It is not because you come from the Paris region or that you grew up there that you automatically have to play PSG, dropped the other star born in Bondy in 1998. Frankly, who would not dream of playing in the Premier League ? “Good if not, there are still Hugo Ekitike and Mauro Icardi, cheered up by his successful loan to Galatasaray.
And elsewhere ?
No one will be made to believe that Bayern Munich cannot find better than Eric-Maxim Choupo-Moting to animate their attack, after having relied for years on the “Bomber” Robert Lewandowski. Inevitably, the name of Kolo Muani circulates, since the Bavarian club has always been the Bundesliga talent vacuum cleaner. But Dusan Vlahovic would be more ardently courted. Problem: according to Tuttosport, Juventus are demanding 80 million euros to let go of the Serb. But Bayern is not Chelsea, even if it was able to pay the same amount to Atlético Madrid to attract Lucas Hernandez in 2019. His record to date.