Roma's transfer planners are exploring a paid loan for Real Madrid forward Endrick, according to a Gazzetta dello Sport report picked up by ONE, as the Italian club looks for attacking reinforcements ahead of the new season.
The idea rests on simple logic: Endrick, still only 19, faces fierce competition for a starting shirt in the Real Madrid attack, and Roma believe that congestion could make his club receptive to a season-long loan with add-ons, potentially including a future buy-option and a buy-back clause protecting Madrid's interests.
The Brazilian has already spent time away from the Bernabéu once. He was sent out on loan to Lyon for the second half of last season to find regular football, and the experience did not derail his international standing — he was still called into Carlo Ancelotti's Brazil squad for the World Cup.
Complicating any approach, though, is the man now in charge at the Bernabéu. José Mourinho took over as Real Madrid's head coach in June after the club moved on from Xabi Alonso and then interim boss Álvaro Arbeloa earlier in 2026, and ONE reports that Mourinho wants Endrick to stay and fight for his place, with the player himself said to be inclined to remain in Madrid.
There is an added layer of history here. Mourinho's previous spell in Serie A, at Roma itself, ended in his dismissal in January 2024, and relations with the Friedkin ownership have reportedly stayed frosty since — hardly the ideal backdrop for the same Roma hierarchy to now be negotiating with Mourinho's new club over one of his own squad players.
None of that has stopped the contact from happening, ONE says, though the report stresses the operation is still at an early, exploratory stage rather than a concrete bid.
Elsewhere in Tuesday's transfer news, Barcelona has rejected an opening approach from AC Milan for left-back Gerard Martín, with the Rossoneri's offer said to be worth €20 million.
Martín, 24, has become an increasingly trusted name in Hansi Flick's Barcelona side and has even been talked up as a future Spain candidate, which explains the Catalan club's reluctance to sanction an exit at that price — other reporting on the saga has suggested Barcelona's valuation sits well above Milan's opening number.
For now, both stories sit at the same stage: contact made, nothing agreed, and two clubs — Roma and Milan — needing to raise their offers if they want to turn interest into transfers before the window closes.
