Actual Madrid have added Bayer Leverkusen wing-back Jeremie Frimpong to their shortlist of right-back targets subsequent summer season.
Following Dani Carvajal’s ACL damage previous to the October worldwide break – an ailment which can see him miss the rest of the 2024/25 season – Madrid have been closely linked with quite a lot of potential successors to Euro 2024 winner.
Probably the most persistently linked right-back has been Liverpool star Trent Alexander-Arnold, who’s but to place pen to paper on a brand new deal at Anfield regardless of his present contract being set to run out in summer season 2025. Stories in Spain have acknowledged that the capital membership are set to make formal contact with Alexander-Arnold in January.
An alternate goal to Alexander-Arnold has now emerged nonetheless, with Sky Sports activities Germany’s Florian Plettenberg reporting that Actual Madrid are monitoring Leverkusen’s Frimpong forward of a possible summer season switch.
The correct wing-back was implausible throughout Leverkusen’s unbeaten double-winning marketing campaign in 2023/24, scoring a quite outstanding 14 objectives and bagging 12 assists in all competitions in Xabi Alonso’s dynamic attacking set-up.
Frimpong’s present contract on the Bay Enviornment reportedly has a really cheap €40m launch clause connected to it.
Talking a couple of potential transfer again in Might, the Dutch worldwide acknowledged that, whereas he was pleased at Leverkusen, he did not know what the long run held: “I am so pleased right here. I am concentrating on the right here and now. I do not know what’s going to occur sooner or later,” he remarked.
With any transfer for a right-back set to be postponed till subsequent summer season, Madrid supervisor Carlo Ancelotti appears to be like set to entrust membership stalwart Lucas Vazquez as his first alternative right-back all through the rest of the 2024/25 season.
