James Rodríguez and Al Rayyan are in the Netherlands doing the preseason. The player joined the squad for several days despite the fact that his intention is to leave the club in this market. He wants to return to a European league and his agent is looking for that. A couple of weeks ago he rejected a proposal from Brazil’s Botafogo.
Now, It is said from Qatar that Italy’s Roma “are looking to sign the Colombian James.” The information was given by Mohamed Elgazar, a journalist who works for the Qatari media outlet Al Watan and for the German news agency DPA. Al Rayyan’s ’10’ is managed by Jorge Mendes, the same representative of José Mourinho, coach of the Roman team.
James has always stated that he would like to play in the Italian Serie A, several months ago he said that he was seduced by the idea of being one of the few players in the world to compete in the 5 major European leagues. He has already passed through France (Monaco), Spain (Real Madrid), Germany (Bayern Munich) and England (Everton).
In addition to the rumor of Roma, The midfielder has also recently been linked with other clubs such as West Ham United, Galatasaray, PSV Eindhoven, Inter Miami and the royal option he had with Botafogo. The owner of that Brazilian team declared that he will continue to monitor the player’s future to see if he can make another attempt to hire him.
Al Rayyan will play their first pre-season game on Dutch territory this Tuesday, July 12. He will do it against Roda JC of the second division of that country. The game will be at 9:00 am, Colombian time.