Pepe is on his way to China, so Real Madrid scouters are looking into the market to find a suitable replacement for the Portuguese defender. Despite Zinedine Zidane said he will count with Pepe until the end of the season, the full back could leave Spain in June to finish his brilliant career in China.
Real Madrid have the perfect replacement for Pepe at home. Jesús Vallejo is shining in Germany with Eintracht Frankfurt and he’s been named as one of the best defenders in the Bundesliga. The former Zaragoza player could be back to Spain in summer to join Real Madrid as the fourth defender in case Pepe finally leaves the club.
However, Jesús Vallejo is still very young and it might be better to give him on loan another year, so he can enjoy more minutes. So Real Madrid are looking for more options in the market. At this point, the Italian newspaper ‘Il Corriere dello Sport’ published that Los Blancos are interested in the Lazio defender Wallace, just arrived in Italy.
Wallace Fortuna dos Santos is only 22 years old and he’s playing his first season with Lazio. The Italian team played €9M to the Portuguese side Braga. However, Wallace didn’t play in Primeira Liga but in Mónaco, where he’s been on loan the last two season, playing 40 games in Ligue One. This season he’s played 13 games with Lazio in Serie A, scoring 1 goal. He arrived to Europe in 2014 from Cruzeiro.
The full back position is really well covered at Real Madrid. Raphael Varane and Nacho showed against Sevilla again that they are able to play in any team. Actually, Nacho’s good performances made him very interesting for several European teams. The Spaniard was about to leave the club in summer for the lack of opportunities but Zidane finally convinced him to stay. Roma was among the teams who showed interest in signing him. If he doesn’t play very often until the end of the season, Nacho might be tempted to leave, so there will be two spots available in the defence. Therefore, Real Madrid have to open the eyes and look for other options in the market.
Comment:there is no need of buying central defence again because we have diego llorente at malaga on loan and jesus vallejo can go another loan for a playing time by d time he will comes back he will have matured enough.so real madrid look at fabio coentrao and danilo da silva if they don’t improve they should sale them for either alvaro tejero mario hermoso to come in. but tejero should go for loan this january.