James Rodriguez will reportedly leave Real Madrid and join the Premier League this January

James Rodriguez will reportedly leave Real Madrid and join the Premier League this January during the Winter Transfer window.

Columbian midfielder James Rodriguez burst on to the scene with a fantastic showing in the 2014 World Cup. His performance caught the attention of Real Madrid who bought him into their folds. Since then however, Rodriguez has struggled for game time.

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There is no denying Rodriguez’s talents. However, he has struggled to break into the playing XI consistently during his stay in the Spanish Capital and has made only 9 appearances this season with the last of them coming 2 months ago.

The midfielder was one of the few players that manager Zinedine Zidane tried to offload in the summer and it seems that he is set to leave the club in January with a shock move to the Premier League to reunite with his former manager for the third time.

James Rodriguez will reportedly leave Real Madrid and join the Premier League this January

Spanish outlet El Desmarque, have reported that Everton are sensationally in pole position to beat the likes of Arsenal, Inter Milan, Roma and Marseille to James Rodriguez’s signatures. Everton have shown an intent to improve by making the shocking signing of Carlo Ancelotti as their manager.

🗞Everton are in pole position to sign Real Madrid’s James Rodriguez. Carlo Ancelotti is a big fan of Rodriguez and tried to sign him for Napoli. Rodriguez will cost around €50M and Everton are said to be preparing a bid (Source – El Desmarque) pic.twitter.com/s3k4JVNce4

— The Toffee Blues (@EvertonNewsFeed) December 30, 2019

It was earlier reported that Ancelotti wanted to make Zlatan Ibrahimovic his first signing. However, things didn’t pan out the way he wanted and the striker joined AC Milan instead. Ancelotti is now aiming to bring Rodriguez, with whom he has worked at Real Madrid and Bayern Munich before, as he plans to reverse Everton’s fortunes in the Premier League.

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