West Ham are being linked with a sensational British-record move for Real Madrid attacker James Rodriguez.
According to Spanish source Marca, Real Madrid are looking to offload Rodriguez this summer, with Manchester United, Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain interested.
The Champions League winners are holding out for a fee of €80m to sell the Colombian attacking midfielder who is not short of suitors.
Rodriguez saw game time under manager Zinedine Zidane become increasingly limited as the Frenchman doesn’t see the playmaker as a starter in his side.
After Zidane was named the Madrid manager on January 4th, Rodriguez only made 10 starts in La Liga the rest of the season, completing the 90 minutes on just four occasions and was being slowly phased out of the side.
Now with a full summer to shape his squad, Zidane wants to offload Rodriguez so he can reinvest in his talented squad to gear towards a title push and knock Barcelona off their perch.
The 25-year-old midfielder is growing increasingly frustrated at Madrid and is willing to consider his future elsewhere because he wants to be the main man and at West Ham he certainly would be. But, it remains highly unlikely a club of our size and stature could attract the likes of James Rodriguez.
Madrid have fielded offers worth €60m but that would not be enough for a sale, say Marca, with €80mthe set asking price. That equates to roughly £67m, which would break the British transfer record set by Manchester United in 2014 when they signed Angel Di Maria from Real Madrid for £59.7m.
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