Real Madrid pays €120m for Diomande – second‑most expensive signing

Real Madrid paid 120 million euros to FC Leipzig in the summer to sign the 19‑year‑old Ivorian Yan Diomande. With possible bonus payments, the sum can rise to up to 140 million euros, making him, after Jude Bellingham, the second‑most expensive signing in the club’s history.

Prominent figures criticize expensive transfer

Rapper Loredana, the wife of former Salzburg striker Karim Adeyemi, voiced sharp words. She commented on a Real post with the words “140 million” and thereby put the high transfer fee into focus, while her husband already moved from Dortmund to Barcelona for only 22 million euros.

The 24‑year‑old Adeyemi has scored three goals and three assists in his eight appearances so far for the Catalans and was called up to the German national team by Jürgen Klopp.

After eight games for the Royals, Diomande recorded only one assist and no goal. In a video recorded in the team bus, he moved his lips to the song ‘Migbo’ by Sethlo and said: “140 million – that’s what they demanded. They will always criticize us, but we just keep climbing.”

Real fans apparently would rather see goals than TikTok videos, but Diomande emphasizes that he wants to keep working on his performance.