José Mourinho kept his word. After the defeat against Bodo Glimt in the Conference League last Thursday by a resounding 6-1, the Portuguese coach decided to send to the stands five starters of the disaster in Norwegian lands: Kumbulla, Reynolds, Diawara, Villar and Borja Mayoral, who they were headlines in Norway. Two of those named are Spanish: midfielder Gonzalo Villar and attacker Borja Mayoral. Precisely, the Madrid forward was one of those indicated when he was substituted at the break of the meeting in Nordic lands, a sign that his work was not to the liking of the Portuguese coach.
The situation of the forward of Parla has changed radically from one year to another. His figures from last season show a Mayoral who ended up in the Romanista team on the last day of the market (then it closed at the end of September) because the club preferred to stay with Luka Jovic at the desire of Zidane, who wanted to count more with the youth squad than with the Serbian. And the French coach was not lacking in reason: Borja participated in 47 games with Roma, scoring 17 goals, giving seven assists in a total of 2,320 minutes. In this campaign, already with Mourinho, He has barely participated in 86 minutes spread over five games, without scoring.
Borja Mayoral’s general statistics.
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And is that Mayoral’s situation has taken a 180-degree turn in the Romanist team. Something that could already be seen coming in summer with the arrival of strikers Tammy Abraham, express request of the Portuguese coach (it cost 40 million euros) and Eldor Shomurodov, for which they paid 17.5 million. Mayoral, who has a loan contract for two seasons (this would be the second and last of the same) with a purchase option at the end of both, is at a dead end. This past summer, the Italian entity rejected the option to exercise the purchase option to delay it at the end of this second and final campaign. The price of the transfer is estimated at about 20 million euros.
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* Data updated as of October 25, 2021
But everything has changed in just two months. First, Rome forbade him to go to the Tokyo Olympics, because they wanted to have him from the first moment, to gradually stop counting on him. Madrid, which is aware of the situation of its player, He came to consider breaking the loan and recovering the player. He even had offers from other teams (Crystal Palace, Fiorentina) to leave on loan. With a contract with Madrid until 2023, it would not be surprising that in this next winter market, Madrid would recover him to release Jovic, with offers from Italy. Now, being one of Mourinho’s designated ones, Borja looks for a way out away from Rome …