Respectful and sparing in words as is usual for him when it comes to making a comment about a player from another team, Zinedine Zidane spoke of one of the young people who sound the most for the future of Real Madrid: Eduardo Camavinga. “He is a good player, he is young and has a future. But I will not say anything else, he is not our player”said the French coach at the press conference prior to the match against Elche.
Camavinga, 18, is one of the players that Madrid has under the radar to undertake the next generational change in the white dressing room. There was a window open upon his arrival last summer, but the economic crisis that worsened with the pandemic and the qualification of Rennes, his lifelong team, for the Champions, alienated the club and the player.
Now the outlook is quite different, as regards the footballer's link with Rennes. Julien Stéphan, the coach who made him debut in the first team at the age of 16 and who also coincided with the lower categories of the Breton club, was recently dismissed. To this is added that The Champions League seems impossible for a Rennes that is, with ten days left in Ligue 1, 21 points behind Lyon, the team that marks the Champions places.
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Knowing the reverse that the non-qualification for Europe supposes for the interests of Rennes to keep Camavinga, other greats of the continent lurk. Chelsea and Manchester United also follow the player and they draw for Madrid a panorama that the white club already lived in the summer of 2017 with Mbappé: now or who knows when.
Despite his youth, Being able to shine on the big stage of the Champions League is almost an obligation for a player who has broken records for precocity with the France team. Earlier this season he became the youngest footballer to debut with Les Bleus In the last hundred years and in October, with his goal against Ukraine, he became the second youngest player to score a goal for the French national team.
The clubs have not been the only players in the market attentive to their performance and their emerging star status. Last December he put his future in the hands of Jonathan Barnett, Bale's agent, one of the most influential representatives in the world of football and who maintains close relations with Madrid. And now, it also has the endorsement of Zinedine Zidane.