Schalke have let the evergreen 36-year-old centre-back depart to join Thierry Henry’s team, landing straight into a relegation battle in Ligue 1 <\/p>\n
Ligue 1 strugglers Monaco have bolstered their defensive options by signing experienced Brazilian centre-back Naldo from Schalke.<\/p>\n
The 36-year-old had been a regular fixture\u00a0in the Bundesliga for most of his 13\u00a0and a half years in Germany, playing for Werder Bremen and\u00a0Wolfsburg\u00a0before making the switch to Schalke in 2016.<\/p>\n
He found himself out of the Schalke team more this term, however, featuring just seven times in the league before the mid-season break.<\/p>\n
Article continues below<\/span> <\/p>\n Juve on alert: Exiled Icardi may have already played his final game for Inter Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea & Pedro impress in Spurs win Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over <\/p>\n The former Brazil international will add much-needed experience to a Monaco team which has shipped 29 goals in 18 Ligue 1 games \u2013 only rock-bottom Guingamp, Dijon and Amiens have conceded more.<\/p>\n Monaco are enduring a woeful season domestically and look in real danger of relegation, having won the title under Leonardo Jardim in 2016-17.<\/p>\n Thierry Henry’s men are second from bottom, with some suggesting their over-reliance on young players is backfiring.<\/p>\n No fewer than 19 players aged 22 or younger have featured\u00a0for Monaco in Ligue 1 this term, but the move for Naldo suggests the club are now looking to older players in a bid to save them from relegation.<\/p>\n Naldo joins until June 2020 and Monaco are reported to have paid approximately \u20ac1million.<\/p>\n Cesc Fabregas – a former team-mate of Henry’s at Arsenal – is also reported to be on his way to Monaco from Chelsea.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Schalke have let the evergreen 36-year-old centre-back depart to join Thierry Henry’s team, landing straight into a relegation battle in Ligue 1 Ligue 1 strugglers Monaco have bolstered their defensive options by signing experienced Brazilian centre-back Naldo from Schalke. The 36-year-old had been a regular fixture\u00a0in the Bundesliga for most of his 13\u00a0and a half…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n