The Cape Verdean center with a contract until 2024 with Rea Madrid, seeks an improvement in his salary that would reach up to 3 million net
The club considers the player’s offer too high and the NBA is on the lookout for a possible departure for the Real Madrid star
The piece that revolves around the real Madrid You have not defined your future in the short term, Walter Tavares He has a contract until next season, but he is considering a move to the United States in case the renewal requests for the Cape Verdean center do not arrive.
Two of the three pillars for the next campaign are already closed, in key renewal, Deck signed through 2028. While, Facu Campazzo He returns to the white club after his disappointing stage in the NBA. The third in contention and undoubtedly the most important, he does not bear fruit. The negotiations for the extension of Tavares’ contract are not on the right track.
The Cape Verdean center renewed in 2019 for 5 more years with a progressive salary with the passing of the seasons until reaching three million gross, double what he is asking now to remain linked to the club. To this day, the club considers the player’s claims exorbitant, for this reason it refers to the existing contract or the exit clause, which is located around the 6 million euros for this summer.
The one who could be considered the best center in Europe, can hardly believe he is among the 10 best paid in the entire Euroleague. Faced with the impossibility of advancing at the moment in the negotiations, the name of Willy Hernangomez as a possible replacement Tavares.
After no longer linked to pelicans And, curiously, sharing an agent with Tavares, the Spaniard would be the best market option both at the Euroleague level and possible returns to Europe from the NBA.
In 2024, the star center of the real Madrid He will be 32 years old, in his head it may happen that it is time to take advantage of the train to return to the NBA. This time, improved in all aspects and with a new ‘status’ of a Euroleague star. Franchises like the one of the Portland Trail Blazers He knocks on the door of the Cape Verdean, with everything still open, the future of the star is yet to be decided and in the white club there are already real doubts about his continuity.