In his strategy of signing young values from across the pond, especially from Brazil, with the intention of finding the new Neymar at an affordable price, Real Madrid has on its radar, as AS has learned, Igor Gomes, Sao Paulo attacking midfielder who just turned 21. He is one of the players that Juni Calafat scouts in that area of Brazil are following closely. The problem is that its termination clause is too high, 50 million euros (much, more for the times that run by the coronavirus) and that there are other teams, including Barcelona and Sevilla, or Ajax Dutch, who have shown a formal interest in the footballer. But Madrid could enter the bid at any time.
Despite playing in Sao Paulo, Igor Gomes, whom it begins to be known as “an improved Kaka in the country's sports programs”, is born in Rio de Janeiro. He joined the São Paulo team when he was 14 years old. His promotion by the sub-17 and sub-20 team was meteoric until he debuted with the first team, with whom he has played 44 professional matches and has scored 5 goals. It has not yet been an absolute international. Its good performance the Sao Paulo signed him last September until 2023 with a withdrawal clause for European teams of 50 million euros.
Madrid has not yet made an official move for him. You are just monitoring while you are awaiting events. If he wanted to take the step, he would have a predominant position, since the player's representative is Wagner Ribeiro, one of the head agents of the white entity in Brazil, the man who brought Robinho and who has served as a link, in recent years between Neymar, his father and Madrid. He was about to bring Neymar in 2013 at the Bernabéu. He even managed to manage Neymar's own image with a company, 9Ine, of which he shared the property with Ronaldo Nazario.
Kaka, in a recent image.
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“He has a Real Madrid face,” they tell this newspaper from the most direct environment of the young footballer, boasting his style of play, very similar to that of Kaká, who also left Sao Paulo (in fact, he was represented, in the beginning, by Wagner Ribeiro himself). “The comparisons are not good, it is too much pressure for him,” Kaka himself recently said about the tricolor playmaker. “But yes, it's true, he often reminds me of me in his game.”
Igor Gomes was present with the Brazilian team in the last South American U-20 played in Chile a year ago team where coincided with Madrid player Rodrygo, for which Madrid paid 40 million euros to Santos. Before he came Vinicius by 45, from Flamengo, and then Reinier, by 30, also from Flamengo. Igor Gomes costs 50. At the moment, for Madrid it is only a possibility that is open.