Atlético contacted Rennes for Camavinga

Eduardo Camavinga (17 years old) is one of the sensations of European football in the last year. The Angolan, who has French nationality, plays as a midfielder for Rennes and has caught the attention of many clubs from the continent since their debut in Ligue 1 in April 2019. Various teams, such as Borussia Dortmund, Bayern Munich, PSG or Real Madrid, have knocked on the door of the Breton club to inquire about the situation of this pearl. However, a new suitor has appeared that nobody expected.

The former president of Rennes, Oliver Létang, dismissed last February for, allegedly, negotiating the sale of Camavinga to Real Madrid, intervened by telephone on the Canal + France program ‘Late Football Club’. The presenter asked him about the rumors of the possible negotiation with Real Madrid and this was the response of the former president: “Contacts with Real Madrid? That is not true and that I know the Real Madrid leaders very well. But I know, because there was total transparency with their representatives, that there were approaches at the level of interest. As president of Stade Rennais, I have never been contacted by Real Madrid “.

But the surprise came when Létang named the team that had called Rennes to ask about Camavinga: “There was contact with Atlético de Madrid, but that was in June 2019, and I closed the door immediately because there was no way Eduardo would leave us”. The rojiblancos they are always very attentive to the players who start to emerge, as was the case with Kun Agüero, João Félix, Giménez or Lautaro Martínez, in which they were interested before he signed for Inter Milan and were very close to achieving his incorporation.

Definitely, getting Camavinga would have been a real bombshell for Simeone's men, seeing the performance he gave last season (36 games among all the competitions in which he added 2,783 ’, scoring a goal and giving two assists). But, above all, because of the level with which this campaign has started, since In just two Ligue 1 games he has already scored one goal and given another to his teammates. The Franco-Angolan ends his contract in 2022 and has confirmed that will continue this campaign at RennesAlthough this will surely be his last campaign in Brittany, making the leap to some of the elite of European football.