The race is over, PSG (finally) lost and Monaco is the winner of the year – Aurelien Tchouameni is a new Real Madrid player. The 22 year old midfielder was caught in a power battle between PSG and Real and how has the price tag of around 80 million euros. A heavy burden for the youngster who only had one great Ligue 1 season…So far, there has been no new information about his fee, which means the price revealed by the Athletic and RMC Sports still stands: 80 million euros, plus 20 in bonuses. And that’s almost double of the original price to the delight of AS Monaco.#WelcomeTchouaméni pic.twitter.com/b6xdzmw4p1— Real Madrid C.F. 🇬🇧🇺🇸 (@realmadriden) June 11, 2022 Back in the fall of 2021, the price was around 40 million euros. But when the youngster took off and showed all his potential during the just finished season, price began to grow. President Florentino Perez was prepared to deal with the Frenchman after he signs Kylian Mbappe, but since it didn’t happen, he quickly turned his attention to Tchouameni. And so was PSG, who felt powerful after persuading Mbappe to stay, and who immediately came to Monaco to start the bidding war. Real didn’t want to be defeated, at least not twice from the same team in a span of two months, so the price was set at 80 million.Real Madrid got scared: 80 million plus 20 million for TchouameniReal Madrid shortly announced that they have agreed a deal with the player for another six seasons. The French international will appear in Madrid, get his medical and talk to the media next Tuesday on June 14. In the meantime, the football world turned it’s attention on the youngster and just hours after he played for France in a 1-1 draw in Austria, a video clip with a number of consecutive mistakes by Tchouameni appeared on social media, and many fans were mocking the player. The pressure is already on.21.45: (1.60) France (3.80) Croatia (7.25)Before arriving at Monaco in January 2020, Tchouameni trained at Girondins from the age of 11. In this club he was proclaimed champion of France under-19 in the 2016/17 season. It was the prelude to his debut with the first team, which he arrived in July 2018 at just 18 years old. In those seasons, he went through the different lower categories of the French team until he was called up by the senior team in September 2021.
