Manchester United’s move for Leny Yoro this summer has cased a rift between super-agent Jorge Mendes and Real Madrid.
That’s according to AS, who cover the transfer today and send big snipes at Manchester United once again two months after the deal happened.
The newspaper explains that Real Madrid are currently combing the market looking for promising centre-backs they can sign next summer.
They’ve been forced into that search after missing out on Yoro, who they believed they had secured from Lille before Manchester United came along.
They ‘bet bigger’ and also offered him more in wages to convince him to Move to Old Trafford rather than the Santiago Bernabeu.
AS go into more detail on that, explaining Manchester United did the deal at €62m between a fixed fee and variable amounts while Madrid refused to go above €40m.
But the ‘big point of difference’ was the salary as United have given Yoro €9m a year. That’s something Madrid would never have paid for an ’18-year-old boy’ who has ‘barely made his mark in elite football’. In fact, sources at the club describe the fee as a “total anomaly”.
They even go as far as to say that while Yoro has a ‘great projection’ there is no evidence that path will ‘deserve that salary’.
The fact it was on the table and in their eyes ridiculous, meant that Yoro was never going to end up there and so Manchester United got him. Madrid weren’t happy with the player or his agent Jorge Mendes, though, and the whole affair ‘created tensions’ with the Portuguese representative.
So, to conclude, Manchester United paid over the odds in fees and wages and it was all orchestrated by Mendes, who Madrid seem to think didn’t play fair. If you can smell bitterness, that’s because there’s a tonne of it.
