With Europe's biggest clubs - including Real Madrid - after him, Rennes prodigy Eduardo Camavinga is doing his best to stay focused on the football and leave everything else to his management team he told Ouest-France in an interview on Friday.

"It's good to see big clubs like these taking an interest in me, but I'm not too interested in that," said the 17-year-old central midfielder who wowed fans in Rennes, France and around the world with composed and authoritative midfield play that belied his tender years. "Especially as I feel good at Rennes. We'll see what happens next. I'll let my parents and my agents handle it."

What's more, Camavinga helped Rennes to a club-record htird-placed finish in Ligue 1 Conforama, meaning that the Brittany club earned a chance at UEFA Champions League football - via the third-qualifying round and the play-offs - and even though this opportunity decreases even further his chances of leaving Rennes, transfer speculation is still at fever pitch, especially in Spain.

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'I can't avoid it'

"I don't look too much, but I still see plenty of talk about me. In fact, I can't avoid it," explained the latest star to emerge from Stade Rennais FC's storied youth academy. "Once, at Amiens in the Coupe de la Ligue BKT (2-3, in December 2019), an opponent told me: 'We have to swap jerseys before you go to Real Madrid'. At the time, I didn't feel like joking, as we'd just been eliminated. But I thought about it afterwards and had a good laugh."