The Ivorian international midfielder Cheick Doukouré, one of the sports director's priorities Miguel Torrecilla and the coach Juan Ignacio Martinez To reinforce the squad for next season, it already has a formal offer from Real Zaragoza, consisting of two years of contract plus an optional third.
Doukouré, which I would arrive at La Romareda with the freedom letter, after having concluded the contract with the I raised, it also interests the Leganes to replace Ruben Perez and he has taken ten days to decide his future, but Zaragoza, despite the paralysis that the process of change of ownership is causing, is a destination that the footballer likes.
AS already revealed on June 23 the interest of Zaragoza in Doukouré, a powerful pivot with deployment and good conduction. Torrecilla and JIM consider that the Aragonese team lacks a player of their characteristics and they have him at the top of their list of objectives.
Doukouré, 28 years old and 1.80 tall, was trained in the quarry of the French Lorient, from where it jumped in 2014 to Metz. And from there in 2017 to Levante, which paid a million and a half euros for his transfer. At the granota club he suffered a very serious injury to his left knee before being loaned to Huesca, where he suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon and was absent for five months, and later a fibrillar tear in the biceps femoris that left him almost unprecedented. He only played four games with Alto Aragon, three less than this season with Levante in the First Division. Now he has been released and needs to join a team that offers him minutes to play the Qatar World Cup 2022.
For their part, the representatives Mathieu Peybernes, another of the clear objectives of Real Zaragoza, they are negotiating with the Almeria the separation of the French central, who would also arrive free at La Romareda and would sign for three years. Peybernes has been training outside the group since Monday, waiting to finalize his departure shortly.