Nacho Fernández’s future is already clear, he will play next season for Al Qadsiah in the Arab league. Joselu’s future is also beginning to be defined: Real Madrid executed the purchase option of 1.5 million euros on the forward linked to Espanyol. “It’s not that I have doubts, it’s that it doesn’t only depend on me. Madrid has signed two forwards (referring to Mbappé and Endrick) and will be planning the season in this way. I hope it can be resolved,” Joselu had explained last week in an interview with Diario As. So, to help the attacker – Espanyol wanted more money for his transfer – Madrid caught Joselu to resell him for the same value to Al Gharafa in Qatar. A gesture with the number 14 who no longer had a place in the Chamartín dressing room. The transfer market, however, still closely follows Spain’s expedition to Germany. Few better showcases than the Euro, few more attractive teams than La Roja.
“Honestly,” explained Luis de la Fuente, Spain’s coach, “I am not worried that there are players who are worried about their future. They are great professionals and have a clear objective. From within the camp, the only thing that is transmitted is the feeling of being a national team player.” In any case, the leadership of Morata and company keeps the whole group focused on the Euro, although there are players from La Roja who have their future in the air. And there are quite a few of them, with the Nacho issue resolved, the Joselu issue on track, and at least nine cases still to be resolved, that of 40% of De la Fuente’s squad.
Morata was precisely one of the first Spanish players to speak without problems about his future. La Roja had not yet beaten Croatia (3-0) and the forward was honest: “If Atleti is looking at so many forwards it will be because I am not a priority for the club. I suppose that what appears in the press is because they (the directors of the Madrid entity) are talking about it. In October I will turn 32 years old and I cannot stay at Atlético to not play and not to be a priority,” said the captain of Spain. From the outset, to warn a market that he already knew how to seduce (Juventus, Real Madrid and Chelsea), on the 7th he opened the scoring against Croatia in Berlin.
There is a La Roja footballer, however, who is on the rise. And it is not Lamine Yamal, with a contract with Barça until 2026 (1,000 million clause). The fashionable name in Spain is Nico Williams. “Hopefully I can share a dressing room with Nico,” says Lamine about the possibility of the Athletic forward joining Barcelona. Williams, meanwhile, acts distracted. “I have renewed with Athletic, I am comfortable and happy. It is very strange that you ask me these questions.” But not only Barça are following him, Liverpool and Chelsea are rubbing their hands together. Your clause? 55 million, a bargain.
Dani Olmo is in a similar situation to Williams. The Leipzig player has a release clause of 60 million euros. However, the club that wants to sign him has to exercise it before July 15. “I am open to possibilities that may arise, but I am going to tell you a cliché: I am focused on the Euros,” said Olmo. The Catalan striker is being followed by Barcelona, as well as Manchester City, Liverpool and Bayern Munich. The Spain number 10’s entourage considers his time at Leipzig to be over. Dani Olmo, for his part, is looking to regain his place in the Roja’s starting eleven. He does so with assists, such as against Albania with a beautiful pass for Ferran Torres.
Ferran Torres, precisely, is one of the players who closes the door to the transfer market. “It’s not that he wants to continue, it’s that I’m going to continue at Barça,” he stressed in an interview with RAC1. The cases of Le Normand are different – “La Real is something very special for me, but I don’t think this is the time to talk about the clubs,” said the centre-back – who is on Atlético de Madrid’s radar, just like that of Ayoze (Barcelona), David Raya (Arsenal), Mikel Merino (Barcelona and Atlético), Zubimendi (Arsenal and Barcelona) and Laporte (Athletic). Spain stands out in the Euro Cup and its players put themselves in the spotlight. Luis de la Fuente, in any case, is not worried.
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