Real Madrid has recalled Eli Ndiaye from his loan spell at Joventut Badalona to reinforce a frontcourt hit by multiple injuries. The club announced that it reached an agreement with Joventut to terminate Ndiaye\u2019s loan early, allowing the Senegalese-Spanish big man to return immediately to Madrid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 22-year-old returned to Real last summer and signed a new two-year contract through 2028 before being loaned out in September for the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The move comes as Mikael Jantunen, Gabriel Deck and Usman Garuba are all sidelined<\/strong>, while Chuma Okeke has also dealt with physical issues. Real Madrid, currently 7-4 in EuroLeague<\/strong>, adds much-needed depth at the forward and center positions ahead of its upcoming games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Real Madrid recalls Eli Ndiaye from Joventut to strengthen a frontcourt depleted by injuries to Jantunen, Deck and Garuba<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":565210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[305,199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[185],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-565213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acb","category-euroleague","typology-official"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/11\/ND-NDIAYE_SG19951.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565215,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565213\/revisions\/565215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565213"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=565213"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=565213"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=565213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}