Mr Nick09 wrote:Mayoral gone to Roma on loan with option to buy

If this loan is now official, it means Mayoral renewed as that was a condition on deal happening.

Did you notice the price Nick? It’s 3M for the loan and 9M for the purchase. 12M in total! That’s quite a drop from the 20M they were asking Valencia to pay.

In any event, this settles roster, with Jovic and Mariano staying.

Doesn't the fact that Valencia is near bankruptcy factor into this? Fact is Flo was shopping Mayoral around for 20M and eventually had to settle for a potential 12M. There were plenty of teams waiting for his contract to expire and get him for free next season, so the fact that they did get him on a renewed contract and did get something for him is a plus, but the fact is they over valuated him.

https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Article/Transferts-le-real-madrid-s-interesse-a-houssem-aouar-ol/1179007

Real Madrid have jumped into the Houssem Aouar sweepstakes with Zidane taking the lead.

sounds fake, like Lyon using our name to get Arsenal to make an actual bid.

OL board insist they won’t accept less than €50m for Houssem Aouar. Arsenal are in talks and pushing... but there’s no agreement with Aulas atm.
Real Madrid are not in the race for this summer, same as PSG. Juventus are now working to sign Federico Chiesa and not Aouar. #AFC

— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) October 2, 2020

i dont think we will sign anyone before Monday, at least, it's very unlikely.

Have you not seen second wave covid numbers from Spain? This pandemic and economic crisis is a looong way from being over! Why do you guys and media have doubts about Flo repeatedly saying no signings this year?

Zidane commented on Aouar and said:

"I don't know what information you have," Zidane said in a news conference on Saturday when asked about the reports. "I have no doubts he's a great player. Maybe one day he could play for Real Madrid. Today we have this squad, and my focus is on the players I have now. From [Oct. 5] I won't have to answer these questions."

Seems to me he's letting everyone know that there is interest... but for various reasons, right now wasn't the time.

https://www.espn.com/soccer/soccer-transfers/story/4198504/real-madrids-zidane-plays-down-aouar-interest

If there was nothing there, he wouldn't even talk about it...

There is one thing to say Zidane or Madrid have interest versus saying we are competing to sign him!

It sure seems to me that the majority of fans, at least here on GL don't accept that COVID is still a huge factor, that revenues are severely down, the fact of no pre season,  or the impact of playing in empty stadiums (like for instance, a comment the other day that we were playing in a non friendly stadium? as if an empty stadium can make for extra pressure on players).

I think some of GL fans are living in that alternative world that Trump stays in!

L'Equipe is a very good source for all things PSG and Lyon... not so much for OM and Monaco.

All they said was that Aouar had a conversation with Zidane and Zidane proposed him as a target to Real Madrid.  That's the entire extent of the story.  Did Real Madrid actually reach out to Aouar and Lyon?  Was the source of the story from Lyon or Aouar's agent? Nothing was said about that.

Well, you certainly fell for it!

sportsczy wrote:

Real Madrid have jumped into the Houssem Aouar sweepstakes with Zidane taking the lead.