[Diario AS] Real Madrid is getting closer to sign Alphonso Davies, the club has maintained contacts with his agent in recent weeks and the player would be willing to leave Bayern next summer. The starting point is €50m according to well informed sources close to the Bavarian club.
by s_91
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> **Title: Davies, closer**
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> Sub-title: As AS has learned, Madrid has maintained contacts with his agent in recent weeks and the player would be willing to leave Bayern next summer.
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> All roads lead to Alphonso Davies (23 years old this Thursday). As AS announced , **Real Madrid, in its short and medium-term roadmap, set the signing of the Canadian left-back as a priority objective to reinforce one of the team’s weakest areas and the white club continues to give firm steps in that direction.**
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> **Talks with his agent, Nedal Huoseh , have intensified in recent weeks**. **The player**, born in a refugee camp in Ghana where his parents arrived fleeing the civil war in Liberia, **would be willing to leave Bayern Munich to wear white in the summer of 2024** , a year before ending his current relationship with the club. Bavarian entity. **The expectations in Madrid are good because the North American’s predisposition is also good.**
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> **Bayern**, which **has tried to renew several times without success**, has covered its back with the signing of Raphäel Guerreiro (29) , Borussia Dortmund’s left-back for seven seasons. The Portuguese international arrived last summer after ending his contract with the Munich team’s great rival and signed until 2026. So far, the physical problems he has suffered since his arrival in Bavaria have prevented him from being a real threat to challenge the position of Davies, although his full recovery seems imminent.
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> **Starting point: 50 million**
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> **The German champion, aware of the situation, is willing to negotiate next summer before allowing its player to leave free in 2025. Sport Bild , a medium normally well informed on matters related to the most powerful club in Germany, has already announced that in Allianz have put a price on his departure: 50 million euros.**
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> **Real Madrid**, a priori, **is not willing to reach that amount but for the Germans to set a value is a starting point and a good sign**. Jan-Christian Dreesen, general director of FC Bayern, will be in charge of stretching the price to the maximum to let the Canadian go, whose current valuation on Transfermarkt is 70 million. This executive, named CEO in May of this year after a decade at the club, is the strong man in the negotiations and has been the main person responsible for the signing of Harry Kane.
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> Several English clubs, especially Manchester City and Chelsea, are also showing great interest in adding Davies to their ranks. Both the player and his agent know that Real Madrid will bet heavily on him but without entering into a bid in which they will not be able to economically compete with the financial power of the Premier League and the state clubs. The footballer’s will will be key and in Valdebebas there is a conviction that his intention is to join the Madrid project.
> More than a representative
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> Huoseh, a family friend since shortly after settling in Edmonton, Canada when Alphonso was 5, is more than just a representative. The full-back’s parents, Debeah and Victoria, trusted him to be his advisor just before he debuted in the MLS, at 15 years and 8 months old, as part of the Vancouver Whitecaps. In fact, Davies was the first client of the representation company ATG Sports , founded by Huoseh in 2015 and based in Saint Albert, a city in the province of Alberta, in Canada.
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> The footballer’s representative has not hidden his admiration for Real Madrid. In a recent interview with Fabrizio Romano, Huoseh, of Palestinian origin, openly confessed his predilection: “I don’t want to despise Bayern, but Real Madrid and its 14 Champions League… I have always been a fan of that team and to hear that they are interested in “A footballer you represent makes you feel proud . ”
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> Neither Mendy nor Fran García have managed to dispel doubts in a position in which Camavinga is the most reliable bet for Ancelotti despite the Frenchman’s poor attachment to that position. In that sense, the arrival of Davies would fit like a glove and would further reinforce the physical strength of an increasingly powerful team in that athletic facet of the game.
> **A rocket**
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> Davies was, along with Nico Williams, the second fastest player at the World Cup in Qatar with a top speed of 35.6 km/h (only behind the Ghanaian Sulemana, with 35.7) and reached 36.5 km/h. h in measurements carried out in the Bundesliga. Kingsley Coman, Mbappé’s teammate in the French team and Alphonso Davies in Bayern, assured that the Canadian is faster than the Frenchman.
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> All the pieces of the puzzle seem to fit together and Davies is closer now than a few months ago but at Real Madrid, which continues to shape the operation meticulously , they know, from experience, that until the moment of signing, they will not be able to claim victory.
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I think the most important question, does he want to continue playing as a LB or is he set on wanting to be a winger?
What do we actually want in a left back these days?