We miss the Brazilian midfielder’s brilliance Juninho Pernambucanoconsidered the greatest player in the club’s history, Lyon fans count down the minutes for the arrival of their new attraction: the also Brazilian Endrickwho for the next six months will wear the number 9 shirt of the city team. The striker is 19 years old and came on loan from Real Madrid.
It was the outcome of talks that began in October, when Frenchman Matthieu Louis-Jean, Lyon sporting directorcarried out the first surveys with the player’s agents and with the Roc Nation Brazilthe Brazilian division of the company linked to the entertainment sector, founded by the American rapper Jay Z. The company was formed in 2023, with the acquisition of TFM, the sports management agency that managed the careers of Endrick himself and other Brazilian national team players, such as Vinícius Júnior and Gabriel Martinelli.
Negotiations progressed and, shortly before Christmas, Lyon, the main club in France’s second largest city, and the Real Madrid reached an agreement for the six-month loan of the striker trained at Palmeiras.
Lyon paid R$6.5 million
With few opportunities at Real Madrid, Endrick will join Paulo Fonseca’s team, right after New Year’s Eve, on January 1st. And it will remain at the disposal of the French team until the end of the season, in May, in exchange for payment of around R$6.5 million (1 million euros) and the payment of half of the player’s wages. It is estimated that Endrick earns 400 thousand euros per month, the equivalent of R$2.5 millionaccording to the The Team. Therefore, in five months, Lyon will have to pay R$6.5 million.
But why did Endrick decide to take the risk of taking such a short shot?far from the most traditional of Spanish teams to play in a championship without the same impact? To find space to play, show his potential and thus, who knows, convince Carlo Ancelotti, the coach of the Brazilian national team, to call him up to the team in the friendlies of the next FIFA window, in March, and, mainly, for the 2026 World Cup.
For this reason, the idea is that, in the coming days, Endrick finds his place in Lyon’s starting lineup. The plan is for him to play at least twenty matches for the French club, distributed between the French Championship, the Europa League and the French Cup. In other words, everything that I was unable to do in Spain. Endrick’s appetite is huge. He will have to prove himself once again at a new club.
Dispute with Mbappé and Gonzalo
In the first year he wore the Real Madridthe Brazilian striker had few opportunities to win the competition with the Frenchman Kylian Mbappéabsolute owner of the position, and the Spanish Gonzalo Gonzaleza rising star. To complicate his life, between June and September this year, he suffered a serious muscle injury to his left thigh. Injured, Endrick was unable to play a single minute in the FIFA Club World Cup, the first competition in which the team was under the command of Spanish coach Xabi Alonso. He lost space in the team and, this season, he only entered the field three times.
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For Lyon, the reinforcement of the Brazilian striker was news to celebrate. Despite being in fifth position in the French Championshipbut well placed in Europa League (leading, with 15 points, tied with Aston Villa, from England, and Midtjylland, from Denmark), the French club was resentful of a top scorer. Top scorer in the Lyon This season, with ten goals, Czech Pavel Šulc is more of a midfielder with offensive characteristics than a killer like Endrick.
Six months until the start of the next World cupthe striker is also counting down the days until he can show his service at Lyon and settle the fight in charge of the Brazilian team’s attack.
