Asensio, uncertain future

Marco Asensio has taken an important step into the future. The Balearic has changed his representative, joining foundation, agency whose boss is Jorge Mendes, just at a key moment. With a contract until 2023, it is time to make decisions, since letting the winger go at zero cost (as of January 2023 he would be free to negotiate with the team he considers) is not part of Real Madrid’s plans. It has been a consensual change with Horacio Gaggioli, his former agent, as AS has learned. Both parties understand that this move is best for Marco and his career, so it hasn’t been a traumatic breakup.

A priori, the marked script does not change. On the 11th, as AS has learned, he would be delighted to continue belonging to Real Madrid. In fact, in February we already reported that the white team had contacted Marco’s entourage with a view to a meeting at the end of the course. The objective was none other than to deal with the renewal, before the 26-year-old footballer’s contract entered the Cesarini zone and the option of losing him for free began to take shape. However, that this turn comes at this moment leaves an uncertain aroma in the future of Asensio. Prepare your next move and it will come from one of the most powerful representation agencies on the football scene.

Cristiano Ronaldo, Rúben Dias, Bernardo Silva, Diogo Jota or João Cancelo, to name some of the most recognizable faces of the ‘Gestifute family’, will now have the Mallorcan as a new member. Interestingly, this decision reminds the one taken by Eduardo Camavinga when he opted, in December 2020, to sign for Stellar Group, agency, among others, of Gareth Bale and managed by Jonathan Barnett. At that time it was still the great jewel of Rennes for which the greats of Europe were beginning to elbow each other. The Frenchman left Moussa Sissoko to join a ‘super agency’. Movement similar to the one made by the Real Madrid winger. The Franco-Agolan changed his mind eight months later…

Overbooking

The situation in recent months has changed. Although his numbers remain solid (11 goals, third highest scorer in the team after Benzema and Vinicius), his importance It has lost gas while Rodrygo and Fede Valverde gained effervescence. The Brazilian, Asensio’s usual rival in the fight for the number ‘8’ lane, has recently put on his cape, with his many saves against Chelsea, to draw the extra time that would end in victory, and Sevilla, to draw the lines of a comeback that smells like League 35.

In Wednesday’s game against Osasuna, both were starters and Marco saw the door, but the one from Osasco gave a sensational performance on the left wing, Vini’s, even forcing two penalties that Benzema could not convert. As long as Valverde has appeared in nights of throne as an option to give strength to the right wing, with the tie against Chelsea as the most resounding example. With Rodrygo Asensio had, with the Halcón de Montevideo (perhaps) not.

And all this with the secret what the expected landing of Mbappé means in summer. If Bondy’s arrives, the Mallorcan will have to add another ‘enemy’, one with whom it is impossible to think that he could compete for minutes. Like a Vinicius who this season has knocked down the door based on goals, especially at the beginning, and incidence and assistance, the rest of the course. Asensio, at 26 years old, is at an ideal age for an extreme with his characteristics and he must decide well.

“Ancelotti was the one who stopped his exit. Madrid was willing to let him out for his own good”Gaggioli recognized when he was still his agent, last September. Carletto He wasn’t lying, he has played 37 games, totaling 1,819 minutes. But next year it is expected that the crack of PSG will also enter the equation. The Balearic Islands never lacked suitors and now Milan presses. And a lot…