Teams in Spain, Germany and Italy are also interested in taking Endrick on loan in January. Sources added that Endrick would be guaranteed to start with Lyon and that his arrival there would be eased by the fact that the club's manager Paulo Fonseca speaks Portuguese. Lyon would have to pay a loan fee to Madrid and cover the entirety of Endrick's $400,000-per-month salary.
Sources told ESPN in September that the eight-time Ballon d'Or-winner was close to finalizing a new multiyear contract, with his current deal due to expire at the end of the year. Now, following the 38-year-old's strong end to the MLS regular season, Romano reports that the "final details" of the new contract are being sorted. Messi is "fully focused" on the Inter Miami project, having first joined the club in the summer of 2023 from Paris Saint-Germain.