Endrick has 141 minutes under Mourinho, a year after 99 Madrid minutes sent him to Lyon

Endrick has played 141 minutes for Real Madrid this season. A year ago, the number that pushed him out the door was 99, the minutes he had collected in the first half of 2025-26 before Lyon took him on loan in January. Now the 20-year-old is again weighing a winter exit, and Roma, Sporting CP and Arsenal are all reported to be interested, even though José Mourinho keeps saying he does not want him to leave.

Endrick's 141 minutes are spread across seven games in La Liga and the Champions League, with one goal and one assist, according to AS and Gazzetta dello Sport. The goal came against Roma.

On Oct. 14 at the Stadio Olimpico, Mourinho sent him on for Vinícius Júnior with Real trailing 3-1. Carlos Espí scored after Pierluigi Gollini failed to hold an Endrick header, and two minutes later, in the 85th minute, Endrick headed in Arda Güler's corner to make it 3-3. Antonio Rüdiger won it 4-3 from another Güler set piece. UEFA named Endrick player of the match.

That night is part of why Roma are now in front. Gazzetta reports that the club and Endrick's camp had a deal in the summer before Mourinho blocked it, that contacts resumed in recent weeks, and that a meeting reportedly took place at Roma's Trigoria training ground after the October game. Corriere dello Sport says Gian Piero Gasperini and the club's management will meet Ryan Friedkin in the coming days to plan the window, with Endrick top of the list.

Roma's offer would be a paid loan with an option to buy, according to Gazzetta, partly because the club is awaiting a UEFA fine and partly because Real Madrid don't want to lose a player they invested heavily in. Yahoo Sports, citing Corriere, adds that Real would keep a buy-back clause.

Sporting are the other strong option. Their new coach is Paulo Fonseca, the man who got the best out of Endrick at Lyon. AS also lists Arsenal among the interested clubs, and Transfermarkt reports the Premier League leaders want him in January.

The Lyon loan is the clearest evidence of what regular minutes do for him. Lyon paid a €1 million loan fee plus half his wages, and he scored 42 minutes into his debut, against Lille in the Coupe de France. Two weeks later he scored a hat-trick against Metz, becoming the youngest player to score a Ligue 1 hat-trick for Lyon and breaking a record Bernard Lacombe had held for 54 years, as BBC Sport reported.

He finished the loan with eight goals in 21 games in all competitions, five of them in 16 Ligue 1 appearances. It wasn't a smooth ride: he was sent off at Nantes, and in April Fonseca said publicly that he was "not happy" with his form. Endrick answered with an assist against Lorient and later scored and set up a goal in a 2-1 win at PSG.

Mourinho has called Endrick not for sale and repeatedly said he counts on him, and the player speaks warmly about the coach. "I have a lot of faith in Mourinho," he said in a recent interview. "Every single day, he checks in on me — not to talk about football, but to ask about my personal life."

The problem is the depth chart, with Kylian Mbappé, Vinícius and Yan Diomande ahead of him, and a Brazil career to think about. "I'm only 20 and I'll see how things develop," Endrick told Brazilian media this week. "I want to play, be happy and help my teammates." His numbers say he gets to do that away from Madrid, and the January window opens in seven weeks.