MOSCOW, July 9 Goalkeeper of “Porto” and the Portuguese national team in football, Diogo Costa can replace the Ukrainian Andrei Lunin in Real Madrid, reports As.
According to the source, in the next seven days the agent of the goalkeeper of the Ukrainian national team Jorge Mendes will meet with representatives of Real Madrid. The 25-year-old footballer does not rule out leaving the team, as the club views him as a second goalkeeper. Mendes intends to offer the current champion of Spain several candidates to replace the Ukrainian, one of them could be Costa.
Lunin has been playing for Real Madrid since the summer of 2018, his current agreement with the team runs until June 2025. In the 2023/24 season, he played 31 matches for the Madrid club in all competitions, conceded 32 goals and kept 12 clean sheets.
The goalkeeper also took part in the 2024 European Championship as part of the Ukrainian national team. He played the entire match of the first round of the group stage of the tournament against the Romanian team (0:3) and missed three goals. Lunin spent the next two meetings on the bench. The Ukrainians did not qualify from the group, taking last place in the quartet.
Koshta is 24 years old. He has been playing for Porto since 2019. In total, he took part in 154 matches and kept 64 clean sheets. In the match of the 1/8 finals of Euro 2024 between the national teams of Portugal and Slovenia (0:0, 3:0 on penalties), Costa repelled three post-match 11-meter shots. He became the first goalkeeper in Euro history to save all three penalties in a series.