This Thursday morning, the management of Real Madrid was far from imagining that it was going to have to look into the market for goalkeepers this summer. But now, the news has fallen. Out in tears on a stretcher in training, Thibault Courtois suffered a rupture of the cruciate ligaments of the knee and will therefore have surgery. As a result, the Belgian goalkeeper will be at least absent until next April and Real Madrid will therefore have to do without their number one goalkeeper, without the best goalkeeper in the world.
So inevitably, there is no question for the Madrid leaders to spend a large part of the season without a high-level number one goalkeeper. In a short time, the Madrid club has therefore actively started to look for its new number one. The candidates are not lacking since Keylor Navas is still undesirable at PSG, David De Gea has been free since his departure from Manchester United or Hugo Lloris on the departure of Tottenham. But Real Madrid especially appreciates the track leading to… Yassine Bounou.
Real Madrid like him very much
Indeed, according to our information, Real Madrid already wanted the Moroccan international as number two at the start of the summer. After the announcement of Courtois’ injury, the Madrid club started talks with the player’s entourage to discuss a possible transfer. Yassine Bounou, who is in the head of his coach in Seville number 2, is open to a departure. Sevilla are asking for 20 million to let him go.
Real Madrid believe he would be the perfect candidate in this number one role while waiting for Courtois. In recent weeks, Bayern Munich had also started negotiations with Sevilla to recover the 32-year-old doorman who was interested in the idea of joining Germany. But if the Bavarian leaders placed Bounou as the number one candidate, Thomas Tuchel himself decided to go for another profile (Kepa from Chelsea). From now on, Yassine Bounou could well bounce back to Real Madrid and find Courtois whom he had known during his time at Atlético.
