Real Madrid journalist Tomas Roncero blasted Eduardo Camavinga's performance against Fiorentina and is urging the club to sell the midfielder.
Real Madrid has played its first preseason friendly against Fiorentina (2-2) and, although it is early to draw conclusions about Jose Mourinho’s team, journalist Tomas Roncero has been very harsh on one of the players the club has on the way out but who does not want to leave: Eduardo Camavinga.
The midfielder is not in the new coach's plans, and he has expressly told the player so. His performances during these first weeks before the start of the 2026-27 season are not convincing, something the journalist has taken advantage of to call for his sale during this summer transfer window. The player is under contract with Madrid through 2029.
“Madrid has to consider cashing in on Camavinga; against Fiorentina I still saw him looking lost,” Roncero stated on his X account. The pundit has not been the only one within the Real Madrid fan base to criticize the No. 6’s performance, which went from better to worse and ended up including mistakes and lapses that could have caused greater damage.
At 23, Camavinga has faded and, with the last two seasons well below the expected level, he is one of the players the club has marked as a possible departure, but both he and his camp keep stressing that they feel very comfortable in Spain. But that does not matter to Roncero, and he has even “demanded” that a strong offer come in to take the player out of the Santiago Bernabeu.
“As with the moon, there are always two sides. The worrying one is personified by Eduardo Camavinga, who looked as erratic, distracted and insecure as in his disappointing last season. The French all-purpose player has gone from a possible star to a fallen star. He is not developing, and he contributes nothing to the team’s play in the engine room. If a good offer were to come in from the Premier League, I would take the opportunity to cash in on him,” Roncero wrote in his column for local outlet AS after Madrid’s match against Fiorentina.
Journalist Sergio Valentin reported weeks ago that an English team had made an offer for Camavinga, but the player turned it down, even though Madrid did intend to let him leave.
In his article published in AS, where he is deputy director, Roncero has been generous about the “first rehearsal of the Mourinho era,” pointing out that the team produced a first half that was “interesting and satisfactory,” but in the second half the lack of fitness condemned the team, which was missing “almost 80% of the starters.”
For the journalist, Madrid “only had three guaranteed starters: Dumfries (or Trent), Valverde and Guler,” and he has specifically wanted to highlight the great performance of the Turk, “the most positive note of the Austrian friendly.” “Guler has already reached maturity after his third season in white, and the game was played the way he wanted. He will be the new Ozil of Mourinho’s second era,” Roncero concluded.
