Endrick's situation causes concern at Santiago Bernabeu

Mid-December last year, Real Madrid officially announced that they had signed a contract with Palmeiras to buy the 16-year-old "child prodigy" Endrick. The super-talented striker, paid 35,000,000 euros fixed, with a potential 25,000,000 through bonuses, will play in Brazil until June 2024 when he turns 18, after which he moves to Madrid. Probably to Real's B team first, but we'll see...

The Madrid club is currently quite worried about the small amount of minutes that their expensively paid project has in the Palmeiras jersey, and the nervousness was further increased by a painful tackle done by Corinthians' Maycon in the big derby played a couple of days ago, writes AS.

The former Shakhtar player prevented Palmeiras' counterattack with a fierce slide and, in the opinion of the former Brazilian international Neto, almost ended the young player's career. If Maycon's boot went only a centimeter higher, Endrick's knee would probably have been severely injured...

"Disgrace! Maycon could have ended Endrick's career," Neto said after the match.

Condemning, but somewhat milder, was former Betis striker Denilson.

"It was an unsportsmanlike move by Maycon".

It is interesting that the referee first showed the Corinthians player a yellow card for this tackle, and only after a call from the VAR room and watching the video did he take out a red one.

The mentioned situation took place in stoppage time of the match, in which Endrick got another big opportunity to score. The Portuguese coach Abel Ferreira put him into play in the 86th minute, and since the European's arrival at the Palmeiras' helm, Endrick has only started four times in 22 games, and in none of those four games has he lasted until the final whistle.

The Spanish media writes that the Madridian giant is nervously following the situation, but they are also aware that they cannot interfere in the decisions of another club's coach, and have no choice but to wait for next summer and the arrival of the young Brazilian at the Santiago Bernabeu. They will probably utilize the same formula as they did with Vinicius Jr and Rodrygo - young Brazilian talents first go to Real Madrid Castilla to get used to the new environment.