Real Madrid’s next goal in Brazil could become much more expensive than the white club had initially estimated. Endrick Felipe Moreira, just 15 years old and who has just been designated as the best footballer in the last Copinha de Sao Paulo playing in Palmeiras’ grassroots football, is on the madridista agenda as the next addition from the prolific South American country; so far his clause is set at 110 million reais, about 17 million euros to change, but Palmeiras is ready to remedy it to that with a new contract.
Endrick will turn 16 on July 21, when his club will offer him his first professional contract.l, in which he intends to ostensibly raise the cost of his termination clause: according to the Brazilian outlet Lance, the idea is to establish that figure at 100 million euros. An amount that, if made effective, would put serious difficulties on his arrival in Madrid. In the white club they know that Brazilian jewels are expensive and they have no problem scratching their pockets to compete in that market, but 100 million is an unaffordable amount.
In his day he paid 30 for Reinier, 40 for Rodrygo and 45 for Vinicius. Those 45 million are the symbolic limit that Madrid sets in the Endrick case. Of course, the signing could never be made before July 21, 2024, when the player will turn 18. Although, as happened in the three cases mentioned above, Madrid could close and announce his incorporation, which would become effective when Endrick reaches the age of majority.
Vinicius and Endrick, a relationship that favors Madrid
In this process, Madrid is confident that the player’s position and his preference for the white club will have a specific weight so that his exit closes well below the 100 million that Palmeiras intends. In a video distributed through his social networks, Endrick posed with a Real Madrid shirt from this season, a gift from Vinicius, with which it shares a representation agency.
Another question is that of the quota of non-EU players, at this moment fully occupied by Militao, Rodrygo and Vinicius. The last one has been waiting for the procedure to go ahead for some time (the pandemic slowed down the process) and then it will be the other two’s turn. If everything goes as expected, in 2024 Madrid will have already generated the necessary space to accommodate Endrick, the new Brazilian pearl.