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On Tuesday night, while

Real Madrid

managers

assumed with some impotence the continued silence of

PSG

in the negotiations for the transfer of

Kylian Mbappé

, their eyes began to turn in the direction of one of the occupants of the white forward:

Mariano Díaz

. The Spanish attacker, of Dominican descent, rings in every transfer window to leave the

Santiago Bernabéu

but the operations always end up hitting a wall. A wall built by Mariano himself, who repeatedly refuses to leave the Madrid discipline, driven by the eternal conviction that he will have the hole and the minutes that nobody has ever given him in the capital.

A few hours after the market closed,

Madrid and Rayo

agreed on the transfer of the player.

The Chamartín team could free up a place in their extensive squad and the Vallecas team would sign a forward with experience in elite football, strong and with a shot.

But

despite the "yes" between the clubs, it was not done

.

The reason?

Mariano, who said "no" again to stop wearing the white shirt.

Rayo ended up signing

Sergi Guardiola and Falcao

, desperate for the Madridista's intentions, and in Valdebebas they were surprised by the refusal of their player.

"Not a team from Madrid ...", they lamented.

A prohibitive contract

Rayo, which took over a part of Mariano's file, is the last team on a list that already accumulates too many names and that will continue to grow, if nothing changes, until the

end of the player's contract, in June 2023

.

An almost prohibitive contract, which is close to five million euros net and that raises the eyebrows of everyone who sits with Madrid or with its agents to assess a possible transfer or assignment.

Situations that the white team has lived with with clubs from

Spain, Italy, France or Portugal

since they signed Mariano in August 2018. That's where it all started and ... why?

The begining of everything

That summer, Madrid signed Mariano in the last moments of the transfer market. A decision, in view of the events, wrong, and that was taken as a result of the pressure of the moment. The

25-year-old

striker

had just had an excellent season at

Olympique de Lyon

, where he had scored

21 goals

in 45 games, and Sevilla had been interested in hiring him. The Andalusian team reached an agreement with the French team for

30 million euros

and Madrid, which had the right of first refusal in the operation, jumped into the pool. He made him a contract for five seasons, until he turned 30, and paid

Lyon

21 million

.

Since then, Mariano has played

47 games

with Madrid and scored

six goals

, very poor data for a purchase of that caliber. After the 2018-2019 season, in which he had played 18 games with Lopetegui and Solari, in Chamartín they tried a loan and found the first "no" of the player, who had eternal faith in his qualities and wanted to convince

Zinedine Zidane

. He did not succeed, he was present in only seven duels and the negatives accumulated:

Benfica, Alavés, Lazio, Eintrach, Valencia

... And now Rayo.

The reasons for this constant rejection will be known by the footballer himself, insisted throughout the afternoon of Tuesday by his surroundings, by his agents and by Madrid itself, in which

Carlo Ancelotti

, like Zidane, has been warning him during the summer of that will not have minutes.

The Italian, with Karim Benzema as the first option for the position of center forward, has as one of his priorities the mental and sports recovery of

Luka Jovic

, for whom Madrid paid 60 million two years ago.

That leaves Mariano as the third, and insignificant, variant of the attack.

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