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Official: 21-year-old Real Madrid youngster joins La Liga rivals
Real Madrid and Toni Fuidias have terminated his contract, and joined fellow La Liga side Girona, as confirmed by the latter club’s official website.
The 21-year-old prospect spent nearly a decade in Real Madrid’s youth system, having joined the club in 2013. He featured 39 times for the Merengues’ Castilla outfit, keeping eight clean sheets.
However, he never made a first-team appearance for the Spanish capital club. Considering Thibaut Courtois and Andriy Lunin have the goalkeeping spots locked in at the Santiago Bernabeu, the young Spaniard would never have had a pathway into the senior side.
So, Fuidias had been in negotiating with Real Madrid over the termination of his contract in recent weeks. And he has now parted ways with the reigning champions of Spain and Europe to join Girona as a free agent.
The youngster has signed a three-year contract until the summer of 2025 with the newly-promoted La Liga club. Real Madrid will receive a percentage of future sales from Girona for the transfer of the 21-year-old.
Fuidias becomes the latest young prospect to leave Los Blancos this summer following the likes of Miguel Gutierrez, Juanmi Latasa, Reinier Jesus (loan) and Victor Chust, among several others.
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Mourinho does not want Real Madrid new signing to be affected by price tag, will continue slow integration
Real Madrid had an explosive summer transfer window with as many as six new big signings coming through to strengthen the first-team squad, while Sergio Martinez was also roped in with an eye on the future.
Up until Friday, things were going well for Jose Mourinho & co., but the 1-0 loss to Real Betis has put the team under the scanner once again.
Questions are being asked, in particular, of the club’s most explosive signing, Yan Diomande.
Mourinho not changing plans with Diomande
However, according to journalist Alvaro Esteban, Mourinho will continue with the plan of integrating Diomande slowly into the team.
The Real Madrid boss does not want the 19-year-old winger to be negatively affected by his massive price tag this summer and the pressure generated because of it.
After all, Los Blancos shelled out an enormous €125 million plus €15 million in add-ons to sign Diomande from RB Leipzig.
Should all the variables be met, he will become the most expensive signing in Real Madrid history. And, naturally, such a price tag brings with it a great deal of pressure.
As such, Mourinho wants to make sure that the Ivory Coast international is not affected in any way by the talk around his price tag and will continue to ease him into the team without rushing things.
Only a handful of minutes for Diomande
So far, Real Madrid have played four La Liga games this season and Diomande has not started even one of them.
Instead, Mourinho has opted to field Arda Guler on the right wing in three matches while Brahim Diaz started in the remaining one.
As for Diomande, he has come on as a substitute in each of the four games, but has only racked up a total of 83 minutes, without scoring or assisting a goal so far.
But, his limited minutes and slow integration are seemingly a part of Mourinho’s plans who is intent on not overexposing the teenage winger and put him under undue pressure due to the expectations that come with his price tag.
