Mariano Díaz will leave Real Madrid on a free transfer in the short term, Fabrizio Romano reports. The attacker has a number of options under consideration and will soon decide in which country he will continue his career. Díaz was bought back by Real from Olympique Lyon in the summer of 2018 through a buyback clause of 22 million euros. However, the Spaniard of Dominican descent was never undisputed.
Díaz played in the youth at Espanyol, Premià de Mar and Badalona, before making his debut in professional football at the latter club. The attacker made 27 goals in 33 league matches for Real Madrid’s second team in the 2015/16 season, after which Zinedine Zidane brought him into the main squad in the summer of 2016 after a back injury to Karim Benzema. He made his debut a week later. Díaz would make fourteen appearances in that season, after which Lyon picked him up.
The French superpower paid around eight million euros for the attacker’s services, with Real including a buyback clause of 22 million. After 48 games, 21 goals and 6 assists, the one-time Dominican international returned to Real in August 2018. Diaz came to the Royal reassigned a spare role. After three basic places and ten appearances in the 2018/19 season, he had to wait until round 26 for his first league game in 2019/20.
Díaz can call himself one of the players who managed to get away with all possible club titles in the service of Real. He became national champion three times, won the Champions League twice and twice the World Cup for club teams. He also added a European Supercup and a Copa del Rey to his palmares. Díaz was born in Barcelona, but because his mother comes from the Dominicans, he can also play for that country. In 2013 he scored his only international match so far.