FC Porto offload outcast? “Málaga could be an option…” | OneFootball

Iván Jaime admitted this Thursday the possibility of returning to Málaga after learning that he is not part of Francesco Farioli's plans at FC Porto.

In an interview with the SupaBros YouTube channel, the Spanish attacking midfielder revealed his desire to represent his boyhood club again in La Liga, following the Andalusians’ promotion to the top tier of Spanish football.

After a loan spell at Montréal, which chose not to exercise the purchase option included in the deal, the player, still under contract with FC Porto, is now looking for a new direction for his career.

“Málaga could be a possibility. I don’t know anything, nor am I aware of anything, but now that they’ve been promoted to the First Division, a great possibility opens up, because Málaga is Málaga,” Iván Jaime began by admitting.

Having come through the Spanish club’s academy, the player could be close to returning home at a time when the Dragons also do not count on him for the upcoming season.

“I would like to come back here before I retire, although I hope there are still many years left until then. It’s a dream. When I left for Portugal, for Famalicão, I was 19 and my first thought was to stay at Málaga,” he continued.

“I was already playing with the first team, but the coach told me many times that he couldn’t use me because of the registration rules. For me, it was as if they were calling me up to register me with the first team, because I would have stayed, but in the end everything happened differently,” admitted the 25-year-old player.

“When I was in Málaga’s youth ranks, I only thought about reaching the first team, not about being a professional footballer,” concluded the Spanish attacking midfielder.

Iván Jaime left Málaga at the age of 19, when he moved to Portugal to play for Famalicão. In the three years he spent at the club from Minho, he took on a prominent role, especially in the 2022/23 season, in which he contributed 11 goals and five assists in 33 matches, numbers that earned him a transfer to FC Porto.

Porto paid around 10 million euros for the player, allowing Famalicão to make a capital gain of 7.5 million euros.

However, his spell at the Estádio do Dragão fell short of expectations. After a season and a half with opportunities to show his worth, Iván Jaime was loaned to Valencia in the final stretch of the 2024/25 season.

Then, in 2025, the midfielder was loaned out again, this time to Montréal. The Canadian club decided not to trigger the purchase option set at 5.5 million euros after the player made 19 appearances, in which he scored only two goals and provided one assist.

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