During the whole season, Marco Asensio weighed whether he would wait for the next one at Santiago Bernabeu, at one point he was inclined to stay, but he changed his mind and decided to leave the club after the current campaign ends!As reported by the increasingly reliable Spanish Relevo, the winger has decided to reject a new contract with the Royal Club and end his seven-year stay in Madrid this summer. The mentioned source writes that Jorge Mendes, Asensio’s agent, and Jose Angel Sanchez, the general manager of Real Madrid, have been negotiating since December in order to find a common language, but that the footballer himself ultimately decided to continue his career somewhere else after the end of the season.Bellingham to sign for Real Madrid next week – a contract until 2029 and a level-two salaryIt’s not about finances. The reasons for Asensio’s departure from Madrid are strictly sport-related, Relevo points out. As his contract expires this summer, the Spaniard could still sign a pre-contract with some of the interested clubs this summer, but his desire was to stay with Los Blancos.The relevant people of Real Madrid wanted the same. They put two contracts in front of him, one during the World Cup break, the other one a month later, both with a slight salary increase and the possibility to write the length of the cooperation himself, but Asensio did not want to sign them at any cost. He wanted to wait for the end of the season and see if his status in the team would change, that is, if Carlo Ancelotti would turn his words into actions. It didn’t happen.##NAJAVA_MECA_7284487##On several occasions, the Italian expert emphasized that Asensio is an important part of the team, that it is very important to have him in the team because he can bring an advantage at any moment, he said that he hoped he would stay, but he did nothing about it. When the season was winding down, and Real were playing the most important games (semi-finals and finals of the Copa del Rey, the complete knockout phase of the Champions League), Asensio got his chance from the bench. He didn’t feel important and therefore decided to move on.⚽ vs. Sevilla—2016 UEFA Super Cup⚽ vs. Real Sociedad—2016 La Liga⚽ vs. Legia Warsaw—2016 UCL⚽ vs. Cultural Leonesa—2016 Copa del Rey⚽ vs. Barcelona—2017 Spanish Super CupNever forget Marco Asensio scored on his Real Madrid debut in five different competitions ♨️ pic.twitter.com/Yo22UnfLtl— Ahmed Post (@Axmedpost) May 26, 2023 In seven seasons spent at the Santiago Bernabeu, Asensio scored 61 and set up 32 goals in 285 appearances for Real, won the Champions League three times, the Club World Cup four times, three European Super Cups and Spanish Super Cups each, three national championship titles and one Copa del Rey.
