Fran Garcia can return

Madrid is gradually outlining Marcelo’s departure and the option that has won the most flight in recent weeks to replace the Brazilian in June is Fran García’s. The white youth squad (22 years old) is a possibility that the club likes. It is an economically very affordable option because Madrid retains half of the boy’s rightsknows Valdebebas perfectly and his year of apprenticeship in Primera with Rayo Vallecano is being a success.

As AS learned, Madrid is seriously considering recovering this summer the Bolaños de Calatrava winger (Ciudad Real) so that, together with Mendy, he will form the three-point duo of the squad in 2022-23. To carry out, having 50 percent of the rights, Madrid would have two paths: either negotiate a transfer with Rayo, with whom there is a good relationship, or undertake the payment of half of the footballer’s clause (5), which is of 10 million euros. That was the figure that was stipulated when the Vallecan entity formalized the purchase of Fran García last summer, after paying Madrid the two million euros of the purchase option it had for the former Castilian.

Rayo has the ability to decide on the future of the player, with a contract in Vallecas until 2025, but Madrid has, in addition to half of the rights, a right of first refusal before any offer from a third club for the boy. Whether or not he finally signs for Fran García, in Chamartín they will have room for maneuver this summer if another interested party appears.

For Madrid, reinforcing the full-backs is a priority and, as this newspaper reported, it is determined that Odriozola will stay on the squad when he returns from his loan at Fiorentina. In the other profile Fran García has advanced Castilista Miguel Gutiérrez, a project that Madrid continues to like even though it has disappeared from Ancelotti’s immediate plans, but in his case they prefer that he go out on loan to grow in a First team. In the style of what he did, precisely, Fran in Vallecas.

Fran García himself has never hidden that his dream is to return to Madrid. “It’s my home, the club of my heart. My goal is to play there one day,” he assured in AS at the end of 2020. “I know that they trust me, that they see me in every game and that motivates me to do things even better “. A message that he expressed again as soon as he was acquired by Rayo as property. He did it on his Instagram profile, where he addressed Real Madrid: “I hope this is not a goodbye and is a see you soon.” A wish in the process of being able to come true very soon.