The Repsol Honda rider has refused to clarify his intentions for 2024 during this weekend’s Japanese MotoGP, Honda’s home🌃 race, but the expectation is that he will head to the Ducati satellite team.

But 🎉Spanish newspaper report that Honda “is not facilitating the exit of the eight-time champion as much as they sa𒁃id they would do”.

Amid the saga of Marquez’s future, Honda’s president Koji Watanabe and its team manager Alberto Puig both hinted that an unhappy rider wou🌠ld be allowed to leave.

“Let's see if itඣ is true,” AS report, while Marquez is expected to hold crucial talks in Japan with Honda’s top brass.

There is “no termination clause” for the final year of his contract, it is reported, so any split “must beꦇ done amic⛦ably and by mutual agreement”.

Carlo Merlini, head of the Gresini team, told AS: “Gresini has a Ducati and, if MArquez knocks on the door, it is his.&ܫꦐnbsp;

“Who wouldn't want to have a rꦿider like him?” 

Davide Tardozzi, Ducati team manager, added: “Ducati has got it right with its bike and with its riders, because it has th🐽e first, second and third overall. 

“And, if it can also have Marc, we know ♈that he is very good and we will see next year what he is capable of doing if he comes.”

The 🦄next step fo🎶r Marquez is seemingly to agree a way out of the final year of his current contract with Honda that is also beneficial for the manufacturer.