Zidane It has art, in addition to how coach, as headhunters. Since he retired, he has always had a eye on Ligue 1 and it is 'monitoring' the young pearls emerging from the French championship. The last to attract the attention of the Marseille coach is Benoit Badiashile, the precocious Monaco central (19 years). A powerful 1.92 meter tall defender who debuted at 17 and he is considered one of the defenders with the most projection in the neighboring country, whom he has represented in the U19. Definitely, a new Varane.
It is not just any reference. Zidane can hang the medal of having been the man who recommended it to Madrid in 2011, when Raphael Varane (27 years old, 318 games in Madrid) he was still in high school preparing for the Selectividad. Zidane personally initiated the managements with a call and Madrid finished them off paying the Lens 10 million more bonus despite Arsenal and PSG offering more money. Badiashile meets one of the qualities that the white club is looking for intensively, a left-handed center back, that can complement the holders, right-handed: Ramos and precisely Varane. Badiashile joins the list of future defenses that have caught the attention of Zidane, among which have been Upamecan (Leipzig), Gabriel (Lille) and Salisu (Valladolid), although Madrid has been taking the pulse of the market since the crisis with great caution.
Among other reasons because Badiashile is priceless for a novice. Have contract in Monaco until 2024 and it is priced between 35 and 40 million euros because it is not an unknown name among the powerful clubs in Europe. He has been very high on the list of left-handed centrals that Pep Guardiola intended for his City (he has finally decided on Aké, from Bournemouth). It has also been linked to the Valencia. Before, Last season, was the Wolverhampton the one who offered 34 million by the French defender who they were rejected by Monaco, according to L'Èquipe. The rush to find a powerful central defender on the Van Dijk path has inundated European football and no one is immune.
In Thorn Shell, both the entity and Zidane have agreed on the need to be aware of any young central ready to make the jump to a big stage before its price is unattainable. It is what has been tried with MilitaOr, who has had a hard time starting in his first year as a Real Madrid player. To Badiashile they made him debut being a minor against Mbappé, signal de that in the Principality they know they have an unusual talent in hand, although still with defects of their inexperience. “I have to to get better the concentration“The boy admitted in an exercise in self-criticism when he became a substitute with the arrival of Robert Moreno on the Monaco bench.
In that sense, the precedent with Varane, again, lead the way. When Madrid signed him after Zizou's tip-off, Mourinho downloaded to the newcomer of all responsibility and let him learn alongside other four much more seasoned centrals (Ramos, Pepe, Albiol and Carvalho). Now the situation is different due to the economic context. There is less scope for risk. The Madrid does it move in saving mode (Mbappé, Camavinga, Haaland … they will have to wait) with the idea of weather losses from coronavirus and it will only go thoroughly to another central if Nacho leaves this summer. At the moment, watch that 'another' Varane does not escape.