Lucas Silva rescinds his contract with Real Madrid Real Madrid Can now negotiate with other clubs

Lucas Silva is no longer a Real Madrid player after the Brazilian midfielder and the club decided to terminate his contract by mutual consent.

As a result, the 26-year-old is now free to negotiate with any team, despite the transfer window having shut last night. In the coming days, Silva hopes to sign for another club in Europe.

Silva joined Real Madrid from Cruzeiro in the 2015 January transfer window, during Carlo Ancelotti's spell in charge of Los Blancos, for a fee of 15 million euros. The move was hardly surprising as the then 21-year-old Brazilian had just been named Best Midfielder in the Campeonato Brasileiro.

However, Silva was barely given a chance in the Spanish capital, playing just eight games in LaLiga Santander and one in the Champions League, before being shipped out on loan to Marseille and then back to Cruzeiro.

Now, after not being able to train at Valdebebas due to a bureaucratic issue, he has terminated his contract by mutual contract. Silva's contract was set to expire in June 2020, but both he and Real Madrid believed that his best chance of finding a new club was to do so as a free agent.