{"id":961675,"date":"2026-07-27T03:17:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T03:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/961675\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T03:17:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T03:17:27","slug":"real-madrid-expected-to-sign-yan-diomande-from-rb-leipzig-psg-withdraw-from-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/961675\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid expected to sign Yan Diomande from RB Leipzig, PSG withdraw from race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Real Madrid are expected to reach an agreement to sign Yan Diomande from RB Leipzig, while Paris Saint-Germain have withdrawn from negotiations for Ivory Coast international.<\/p>\n

Madrid had an initial bid for Diomande rejected by Leipzig around 10 days ago and returned with an improved offer more recently \u2014 worth \u20ac120million, which includes a \u20ac100m fixed fee.<\/p>\n

The proposal has yet to receive a response from Leipzig and is also expected to be turned down, however there is confidence on all sides that a deal will be struck in due course.<\/p>\n

PSG sources with knowledge of the situation, speaking on the condition of anonymity to protect relationships, indicated that the club are not prepared to meet Leipzig\u2019s asking price for a transfer fee nor the player\u2019s salary demands, and that the French champions would continue with other plans in the transfer market.<\/p>\n

As the window has progressed, Diomande has made Madrid his preference for a summer move. Diomande had previously made PSG his destination of choice \u2014 but the European champions had not yet shown a willingness to offer a level of fee that would convince Leipzig to consider a sale this summer.<\/p>\n

Leipzig are expected to speak to the 19-year-old on Monday when he returns to the club, where he is expected to communicate his wish to join Madrid.<\/p>\n

Leipzig have been holding out for a fee closer to \u20ac130m while also trying to tie Diomande, who is contracted until 2030, to a new deal \u2014 and have been hopeful he will remain at the club beyond the summer window.<\/p>\n

The Athletic<\/a> reported on Friday that\u00a0Madrid had entered the race to sign the 19-year-old Ivory Coast international and were in talks with Leipzig over a move.<\/p>\n

That followed a report from The Athletic<\/a> on June 24 that Madrid considering a move for a right-sided forward this summer in case Brahim Diaz were to depart.<\/p>\n

Madrid have had a busy summer with Jose Mourinho returning as head coach and the club moving quickly to strengthen the squad with Marc Cucurella, Bernardo Silva, Ibrahima Konate and Denzel Dumfries among the arrivals.<\/p>\n

The Athletic reported<\/a> on Friday the club were working on a deal to sign Rodri, the World Cup\u2019s Golden Ball winner, from Manchester City.<\/p>\n

Diomande scored 12 goals and provided nine assists in 33 Bundesliga matches \u2014 missing just one league game, due to his participation in the Africa Cup of Nations \u2014 last season, his first for Leipzig.<\/p>\n

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A deal for Diomande is likely to be Leipzig\u2019s record sale, exceeding the fees they received for Benjamin Sekso from Manchester United in 2025<\/a>\u00a0(\u20ac76.5m plus add-ons) or the \u20ac90m that\u00a0Manchester City paid the club to sign Josko Gvardiol in 2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Diomande played in each of Ivory Coast\u2019s four World Cup matches this summer, with his nation eliminated in the round-of-32 by Norway.<\/p>\n

One of the most coveted talents on the planet<\/strong><\/p>\n

Analysis by football data writer Thomas Harris<\/a><\/p>\n

Barely 18 months ago, Diomande was playing his football for DME Sports Academy in Florida. Now impressing at this summer\u2019s World Cup, he is one of the most coveted players on the planet.<\/p>\n

The Ivorian\u2019s ascent has been frighteningly quick, crashing his way through European football in a whirlwind of zig-zagging runs and emphatic finishes. It began at Spanish side Leganes, where he spent three months with the reserves after his arrival from the United States, before earning his professional debut against Real Madrid. His first goal soon followed, quickly backed up with statement performances against Villarreal and Real Valladolid \u2014 games in which his prodigious dribbling ability became clear.<\/p>\n

Barely 500 minutes of football was all it took to convince RB Leipzig to make their move, and Diomande has continued to thrive as the chief outlet down the flanks at the Bundesliga club. No player in the German top flight has tried to dribble past an opponent more often last season, while his success rate is the highest of any winger across Europe with at least 50 take-on attempts. He is one of the few wide players in world football who genuinely combines quantity and quality out wide.<\/p>\n

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\n Diomande enjoyed a fine debut season for RB Leipzig (Christof Koepsel\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old\u2019s rapid feet and slender figure allow him to dart quickly in either direction, but there is also a sense of power and springiness to Diomande\u2019s dribbling when he is in full flow, able to bounce from challenge to challenge and keep the ball moving forward at speed. It makes him a potent weapon on the counter-attack, where his dribbling fluency translates to a smooth shooting action. He is capable of shifting the ball quickly and generating power and accuracy with both feet.<\/p>\n

Such unpredictability was on display in the Bundesliga run-in; he clinched a late win against Borussia Monchengladbach with a shimmy and a thumping finish on his left in early April, before opening the scoring away at Eintracht Frankfurt seven days later after a mazy run, a chop inside and a curling shot with his right.<\/p>\n

Diomande has already adapted to the international stage, too, scoring three times in 14 appearances for Ivory Coast and making his mark at the Africa Cup of Nations and in helping his country progress from a tough group including Germany and Ecuador at the World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Real Madrid are expected to reach an agreement to sign Yan Diomande from RB Leipzig, while Paris Saint-Germain…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":961676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[45],"tags":[24937,30656,4732,1723,215,1722,220,18288,10214,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-961675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-champions-league","tag-ivory-coast","tag-la-liga","tag-ligue-1","tag-liverpool","tag-paris-saint-germain","tag-premier-league","tag-rb-leipzig","tag-real-madrid","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116989779522863143","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/961676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}