Camavinga, 'free' agent

Eduardo Camavinga (18 years old) has become a perennial protagonist of current football since his emergence in the elite last season and, mainly, since Real Madrid has included him in their roadmap. At the Santiago Bernabéu they have two names written in gold letters for the near future of the entity: Kylian Mbappé, for 2021, and Erling Haaland, for 2022. With the promising Rennes midfielder as the luxury companion of the PSG star, the great white desire, next summer. If at the beginning of the course he visited covers with their lights, then with their shadows and later with the definitive support of Madrid, now it is a decision that marks his present and, above all, his future: Camavinga has left Moussa Sissoko, his agent until now, as reported footmercato. The Franco-Angolan man changes his paradigm and becomes a 'free' agent.

This turn in the course of his career comes at a crucial moment in it, since the negotiation of a new contract with Rennes, with whom he ends his relationship in June 2022, stars on his horizon. Camavinga, whose future will be managed by his father Celestino, for now, has caused an earthquake in the world of agents with his decision. The representatives and intermediaries with the greatest power on the planet rub their hands to try to add one of the most valuable bills of the present to their already millionaire wallets.

Battle of millionaire wallets

Thus, as the aforementioned medium slides, Jorge Mendes, Jonathan Barnett and Pini Zahavi they are more than ready to seize their opportunity. So that we understand each other, Cristiano Ronaldo's agent, Gareth Bale's and one of the most important intermediaries to help Neymar land at PSG. The least known at the popular level may be the latter. Zahavi is Israeli, has a past in the media and explains his trade as follows: “I connect clubs, funds, players and agents. I bring them together and they pay me my commission.” He became famous managing the Rio Ferdinand race and, as we say, he cooked the gigantic Neymar-PSG-Barcelona operation.

Among this short but forceful list of great personalities could be in charge of managing the future affairs of our young protagonist. With the first two, Mendes and Barnett, it goes without saying the past and present relationships that unite them to Madrid. While Zahavi has yet to get his name to appear in any crystallized operation, as he failed in his attempt to bring Lewandowski to Real in 2018. We will see if one of them is finally the winner of the battle for Camavinga and what side effects it would cause.

Questions out of focus

Be that as it may, the midfielder has placed new questions about a future that he already left in the air in recent statements. “The big clubs make me dream “, began to answer a question about the interest of Madrid a few days ago. Although he qualified at the time: “But I cannot particularly reveal one for my future.” All this before talking about the renovation that you have before you: “If I want to stay in Rennes? We'll see. We haven't set a date to discuss my future, I'm in no rush about it.” Surely in the Paseo de la Castellana they are not in too much of a hurry for that conversation to take place.

All this places a huge media load on the player's shoulders, although the having been eliminated from the Champions League will take him out of the main focus. At least, during the week. His performance in the top continental competition has not been as convincing as he would surely have liked. After starting the home draw against Krasnodar (1-1), Camavinga was left out on matchday two and third due to physical problems. The defeats against Sevilla (1-0) and Chelsea (3-0) cemented a goodbye that has been confirmed after falling in Roazhon Park against the English this Tuesday (1-2), despite the return to eleven of our protagonist. The objective now, renewals and rumors aside, must be to overcome Krasnodar in the race for the Europa League so that the European focus does not disappear completely..