{"id":847385,"date":"2026-08-05T20:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T20:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/847385\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T20:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T20:38:09","slug":"real-madrid-agree-club-record-115m-deal-for-yan-diomande-and-want-to-keep-vinicius-real-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/847385\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid agree club-record \u00a3115m deal for Yan Diomand\u00e9 and want to keep Vin\u00edcius | Real Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Real Madrid have agreed a club-record fee of \u20ac135m (\u00a3115.7m) with RB Leipzig for Yan Diomande and are confident of warding off Arsenal\u2019s interest in Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior<\/a> after offering an improved contract to the Brazil forward.<\/p>\n

After several weeks of negotiations that saw Paris Saint-Germain pull out of the race, the deal for Diomande \u2013 the 19-year-old who joined the German side from Legan\u00e9s last summer and starred for C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire at the World Cup \u2013 was finally struck on Wednesday afternoon. It is understood that Madrid will pay an initial \u20ac125m plus another \u20ac10m in add-ons, a total that would eclipse the fee the Spanish side paid Borussia Dortmund to sign Jude Bellingham in 2023<\/a>, believed to have been worth up to \u20ac134m including add-ons.<\/p>\n

Legan\u00e9s are due a 5% sell-on fee from any transfer. The teenager made only 10 appearances for their first team before being sold to Leipzig for \u20ac20m (\u00a317.4m). Diomande, who was pictured arriving at Leipzig\u2019s pre-season training camp in Austria on Wednesday, is expected to sign a contract until 2031 and becomes the most expensive African player in history, surpassing the \u00a372m Arsenal<\/a> spent on Nicolas P\u00e9p\u00e9 in 2019.<\/p>\n

His impending arrival is not thought to have any bearing on whether Vin\u00edcius stays in the Spanish capital. The Brazilian and his representatives, Roc Nation, held talks with Madrid officials on Wednesday over a contract extension, with Arsenal waiting in the wings if he decides to depart.<\/p>\n

Mikel Arteta\u2019s side are understood to be ready to pay more than \u00a3100m for the 26-year-old who has less than a year of his contract remaining. But despite some reports that Vin\u00edcius had rejected Madrid\u2019s latest contract offer, it is understood that he is now weighing up an improved deal closer to the \u20ac30m a season requested after what sources in Spain have described as positive talks. Vin\u00edcius said on Tuesday that Madrid\u2019s new manager, Jos\u00e9 Mourinho, wants him to be \u201chappy, cheerful \u200cand playing my football\u201d after returning to pre-season training following the World Cup.<\/p>\n

Arsenal, who have agreed a \u00a375m deal to sign his Brazil teammate Bruno Guimar\u00e3es from Newcastle<\/a>, are believed to be exploring other options in attack should Vin\u00edcius opt to renew with Madrid.<\/p>\n

Barcelona\u2019s sporting director, Deco, held talks with Atl\u00e9tico Madrid<\/a> over Juli\u00e1n Alvarez on Wednesday in a bid to secure a deal for the Argentina forward but Arsenal are hoping that the 26-year-old could yet be persuaded to join them.<\/p>\n

Arsenal, who missed out on Morgan Rogers last month when the England forward joined Chelsea for a British record fee of \u00a3117m instead, have also been linked with PSG\u2019s Bradley Barcola, who is wanted by Liverpool and valued at around \u00a3145m by the European champions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Real Madrid have agreed a club-record fee of \u20ac135m (\u00a3115.7m) with RB Leipzig for Yan Diomande and are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-847385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}