Kylian Mbappe's arrival at the Bernabeu put Rodrygo in a strange position: young, talented, multiple Champions League winner - and suddenly no longer the first choice. Real Madrid is considering offers around 100 million euros this summer, and the Premier League is already lining up.

Arsenal is the loudest candidate. After reaching the Champions League final, the London club is looking for another elite forward who carries the ball, presses and decides games in big moments. Rodrygo ticks all three boxes. In a dual role - left line, eye on the centre - he is exactly what Arteta wants.

Manchester City may be a bigger danger than it looks. Guardiola sees the Brazilian as one of the few attackers genuinely available on the market - able to play on both wings, drift into the centre, press high. City has already prepared a financial package above what Liverpool offered earlier this year.

Liverpool is not finished. Slot wants another star who can carry them through difficult patches. Rodrygo has experience - the double against Manchester City in the 2022 Champions League semi-final is part of Real's legend. Those moments cannot be bought, they are waited for over years.

Still, Real does not sell willingly - it sells when there are strategic reasons. The season was catastrophic, the coaching situation unstable, and Mbappe, Vinicius and Bellingham are untouchable. Rodrygo is the perfect „sacrifice" to finance the next rebuild, especially after the knee injury in March against Getafe - an injury that ruled him out of the World Cup.

Will this summer story change the balance of the Premier League? Possibly. When one of the five best young forwards in the world becomes available at 25, several clubs will fight for him down to the last euro.