“Ander is struggling”

Andrew Herrera This is the great right name in recent weeks in the rojiblanco environment. His departure from PSG and joining Athletic is not yet final, but everyone is asking about his situation. One of the people who know him better is Jesus Perezright hand of Mauricio Pochettino at Espanyol, Southampton, Tottenham and also at PSG, where he teamed up with the Bilbao midfielder. The technician, who maintains a friendly relationship with the former lion, spoke about his situation in an interview given to Cope Bilbao chain.

“We know the walk Zaragoza and Athletic. We were in England for five years, he was playing for United and we were playing for Southampton and Tottenham. On the field he is a competitive player, I said he is a heavy player, that you don’t want him in front of you, but later when we were with him at PSG we discovered that he is a different player. , hyperactive in training and competition but then as a person he is incredibly kind. I can say that after 27 years in this world of football, he is one of the few players that I have maintained friendship with. We were surprised, because apart from the player everyone knows, he is an incredibly good person, one of those people worth spending time off the pitch”, he pointed out.

blacksmith he arrives at Athletic after not playing many minutes last season and training from the group at PSG, where he was ‘isolated’ as he was not counted for the coach Christophe Galtier. How will it affect your performance? “Always preparing without the team is not the best, but walk In his favor he has a great background and is a very professional boy, he lives for and for football. He takes care of himself, during the summer breaks he works with professional people in Zaragoza and sometimes beyond. He will need his specific training to get his best feeling but I have no doubt that a kid like him needs a little bit,” he explained.

blacksmith he can play forward in defense at the start of the game or a few meters further, linking up with the forwards. “If I remember correctly, with us he completed 500 official matches, that says it all. He has a background that allows him to be useful in many positions. That depends on what the coach wants as a function, but he still has great range, which helps him be useful in many spaces on the field that other players with little range, even want they, cannot do,” he added.

Perez considering that walk “he deserves the best”. “I know he’s having a bad time because he finds himself in that situation that no one wants to be in. I relate to him, he’s a positive person, he’s someone who takes advantage of the less fortunate situation and in the end it will work out for him,” he added.

The coach is clear that he will spend nothing to adapt to Athletic’s dressing room. “He is a humble person and has a very long journey in football that it will cost him nothing. He acts naturally, he thinks he is one of the most loved players in the PSG squad and the heaviest in terms of name and so I say everything. He came and quickly learned to speak French and attended all the PSG events that others did not go to because they did not speak French or used it as an excuse. Everything that was given to him of football, he deserves it”, he reiterated Bilbao can handle it. It should be remembered that the French team includes such men Messi, Neymar either Mbappe.