Real Madrid, Chelsea and Liverpool send scouts to watch 19-year-old Premier League forward | OneFootball

A little over a year ago, Real Madrid had been credited with an interest in French attacking prodigy Eli Junior Kroupi, dubbed the ‘new Kylian Mbappe’.

The young forward had been in brilliant form for his boyhood club Lorient at the time and was attracting strong interest from top clubs, including Real Madrid.

However, it was Premier League side AFC Bournemouth who captured his signing in February 2025, with the attacker eventually arriving in England during last summer.

Now 19 years old, Kroupi has enjoyed a fairly solid start to life in the Premier League. So much so that elite clubs are once again tracking him.

Real Madrid scout Kroupi

Indeed, according to journalist Rahman Osman, Real Madrid are one among multiple top teams to have sent scouts to watch Eli Junior Kroupi in action.

Real Madrid tracking Eli Junior Kroupi. (Photo by Alex Livesey/Getty Images)

Apart from Los Blancos, Premier League giants Chelsea and Liverpool have also watched him in action while PSG, too, are also monitoring the teenage forward.

So far in his debut season in the Premier League, Kroupi, whose contract runs until 2030, has scored eight goals from 20 matches, averaging one every 106 minutes.

Given his strong start, Bournemouth are already working on offering Kroupi a new and improved contract, similar to something that they had handed Antoine Semenyo, who left the club for Manchester City in January.

For now, there is nothing concrete regarding Real Madrid’s interest in Kroupi beyond their regular scouting mission of the young forward.

With Endrick expected to return to the team after his loan spell at Lyon and Gonzalo Garcia also at the club, it seems unlikely Real Madrid will make a move for him unless one of the current forwards leave.