EA Sports, the Spanish Football League, gave Nacho Fernandez the opportunity to play in El Clásico after reducing his ban from 3 to 2 matches, but this fact does not prevent Real Madrid from facing serious difficulties in finding players for their defense after bidding farewell to Eder Militao. Last season, in the first league match, David Alaba left the merengue defense lame due to a new muscle injury in his record.
With Nacho theoretically suspended, Rudiger remains the only centre-back available to the first team for the next two league matches, but although Nacho has reduced his remaining suspension to 1, Florentino Pérez has concluded that in order to replace Militao and cover their backs in the event of an Alaba setback, It is necessary to sign a new central position in the January market. In this sense, many of the names that have been linked to Carlo Ancelotti’s team are, above all, young defenders, as the main duo when they all recover will be either Militao with Alaba or Militao with Rudiger.
After investigating the situation of Milan’s new defensive stronghold, Malik Thiaw, and receiving the same player’s refusal to leave his team in the middle of the season, the electronic portal specializing in contracts, fichajes.net, confirms that the name is Ousmane Diomandi.
The idea is that his cost is not very high, and that when David Alaba and Eder Militao recover, he will easily accept the role of substitute. In this sense, Diomande, 19, has not played much in professional football, but the Ivorian centre-back is already standing out for Sporting Lisbon, despite having just arrived at the club from Danish midfielder Midtjylland.
The Central African Republic was arrested during January 2022 by the Danish entity’s talent scouts, taking him to European football for the first time from his native Ivory Coast. Within months, he had already made his debut for the first team, and in the summer of 2022, his good performances took him to Portugal’s silver tier on loan. There, his performances continued to impress one of the top teams in the Portuguese Primera Division, which ended up deciding to pay €7.5 million of his contract termination clause in January 2023.
Although its cost was low six months ago, its development has continued to remain steady and trnasfermarkt.es has already rated it at €25 million. However, he is an undisputed starter in his team and has a contract valid until the summer of 2027. Everything indicates that his starting price is around 35 million euros, and more for Real Madrid, which has great economic strength and needs to sign a defensive line. Axis. However, as with Theo, Diomande does not want to change his mind mid-season, especially when he arrived in Lisbon less than a year ago.
