Mbappé, Davies… and Leny Yoro (Saint-Maurice, France, 18 years old). The Lille centre-back is Real Madrid’s first option to reinforce the defense axis next summer. The white club intends to take advantage of the fact that he only has a contract until 2025 to achieve his signing with advantageous economic conditions. In any case, sources close to the footballer assure that Lille wants to earn around 60 million euros for his great jewel. This amount may seem very high for a footballer who has not yet made his debut with the French national team, but Yoro has already earned the title of being one of the best young centre-backs in the world. Due to current conditions and a projection for which there is no ceiling in sight.
At PSG they know it well. Hence, in the last winter market the Parisian club tried to sign him in a lightning move. But Lille, totally reluctant to reinforce their country’s great rival, stood out by demanding 100 million euros to carry out the operation. PSG could not afford such an outlay as it considered the price disproportionate and also due to the factor of being limited by Financial Fair Play. In addition to Madrid and PSG, Chelsea and Bayern are also among the suitors. In that race to acquire the promising Lille defender, the Spanish team has an advantage thanks to the presence of several of their compatriots.
Leny Yoro, with Lille.Isosport/MB MediaGetty Images
His surroundings see this aspect as very important so that such a young player can continue his evolution in a locker room where he has teammates to help him acclimatize. His experience with Camavinga, who made the transition from Rennes to Madrid in a similar situation, is the example that the white club will work to convince him. He is not unique. Tchouameni also took on the same challenge (somewhat older). In both cases, the adaptation to the club and the Spanish League has gone smoothly.
The viable… the free
Madrid’s strategy is clear: either Lille agrees to negotiate within parameters that fit or they will try to have the player continue one more season at his club and arrive with the freedom letter in 2025. Lille is aware of the position of weakness where you are when having a negotiation. For this reason, he is trying by all means to renew his pearl and, in this way, guarantee himself a better condition for negotiating. Yoro, for his part, is more in favor of not extending his current contract and taking the leap this coming summer rather than having to wait until 2025.
Yoro has a great ball movement and in the defensive phase he is very reminiscent of a former Madrid player and compatriot of his: Varane. Despite his height of 1.90 meters, he is a fairly reactive and precise player in the cut. This season, he has played 35 games in which he has stood out with three goals. His arrival would considerably rejuvenate the center of the defense, a field in which the average age is over thirty. Nacho, if he continues, will be 35 years old and Rüdiger (31) and Alaba (he will be 32 years old in June) are also over thirty. In the case of the Austrian, there is also the uncertainty of how he has overcome the cruciate fracture that occurred last December. The club is also waiting to see how the other centre-back, Militao (26 years old), returns to competition at the highest level, who has gone through the same ordeal although, in his case, he will return this season.
Must go to the Olympic Games
The potential signing hides a drawback: he is among the players who are expected to be summoned by France for the Paris Games. He was called up to the French U-21 during the breaks last September, October and November. Henry, the Olympic coach, will have the last word, but Yoro is among the range of young center backs that he is counting on. It includes Lukeba (21 years old, Leipzig), Doukouré (20 years old, Strasbourg), Matsima (21 years old, Clermont), Belocian (19 years old, Rennes) and a player who attracts a lot of attention, the 2.06 tower meters from Lorient, Touré (20 years). The football competition at the Games will begin on July 24, two days before the ceremony that will open the Olympic event, in the middle of Ancelotti’s Madrid’s preseason.
Leny Yoro, with Lille.Real Madrid
Mbappé ‘endorses’ it
At Real Madrid he could meet Mbappé, one of those who knows him well. The star, still from PSG, has told his closest circle that the Lille defender is the defender who has caused the most complications this season. An endorsement that joins the magnificent reports that Madrid handles about this new talent from the prolific French center back quarry.
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Leny Olivier Yoro (18 years old) has Ivory Coast ancestry on his father’s side and joined the Lille youth academy seven years ago, after a start in more modest clubs, such as Alfortville (2011-12) and Villeneuve d ‘Ascq Métropole (from 2012 to 2017). Despite his youth, he is used to leaving all kinds of barriers behind. Although he only came of age five months ago, he has 51 appearances for Lille and has gone through all the youth categories of the French national team from the U-17 to the U-21.
Debut at 16 years, six months and one day
That early presence at Lille made him debut with the first team at just 16 years, six months and one day, surpassing the record of former Madrid player Eden Hazard, now the second youngest in the history of the northern club. That is why in January 2022 they gave him his first professional contract, until 2025, which has become too small for him. The entity has not managed to improve its duration, which leaves Yoro on a platter for those of Europe’s greats who want him. Now, paying, or in two summers, free. ‘The quiet force’, as they call him in Lille for his mastery of the scene inappropriate for his age, wants to take the leap. He stalks Madrid.
2024-03-25 04:15:25
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