Four months after his arrival from Real Madrid and at the express request of Lopetegui, the Malaga man leaves the team now coached by Sampaoli
Bad times for Malaga’s Isco Alarcón, who canceled the two-year contract with Sevilla that the ex-Madridista signed just over four months ago. The Spain international, an asset to the Nervionense club, is set to leave through the back door after a week that revealed a confrontation with Monchi, the sports director, in which the player disappeared from training due to alleged discomfort that no one has confirmed.
Isco was an explicit request from Julen Lopetegui, with whom he shared his best moments both at Real Madrid and in the Spanish team. He enjoyed a tremendous presentation in the Sánchez Pizjuán and shone in the first games of the season under the Gipuzkoan coach. In fact, Arroyo de la Miel’s midfielder or midfielder was the highlight in the context of that terrible start to the campaign in Seville.
After Lopetegui’s sacking, Argentina’s Jorge Sampaoli began his career on the Andalusian bench with Isco regularly in the starting eleven, but it happened that the Malaga man’s light went out and rumors about his physical condition resurfaced. He was seen as overweight, sluggish, and had trouble getting off balance on offense and retreating on defense.
Sources close to the club Sánchez Pijzuán report that the main moment to be sentenced in Seville was the league game against Rayo Vallecano ahead of the big Andalusian derby. It turns out that Isco arrived with four yellow cards and saw the fifth deprived him of participation in the match against Betis. He was accused of not taking the slightest precaution to prevent this.
All this sequence of things has led to an unsustainable situation where the parties have chosen to negotiate to part their ways. Isco leaves Sevilla after playing 19 games in which he scored and provided three assists. Bad background for a 30-year-old player who received the ‘Golden Boy’ award in 2012, which recognized him as the best young player in Europe, and belonged to Real Madrid between 2013 and 2022, won four Champions League titles and three league titles , among other prices. Definitely international in 38 games, with 12 goals, Isco has to look for a new destination.
Before hearing that Isco was going to part ways with Sevilla, Sampaoli appeared at the press conference ahead of Sevila’s cup match next Wednesday at Juventud, Torremolinos and was asked about the Malaga man’s situation. The Argentina coach acknowledged that his condition is not the same as the rest of his teammates and competitors within the squad.
“It is a situation that I am not involved in. My role as a coach is to see which players I have available and work with them. Isco has an ability well marked throughout his career. The decision of who stays or who leaves is a matter for the club, not the coach. I put myself into the players I have and that they arrive in the best way. Isco hasn’t played in friendlies because he hasn’t been like the rest of the players lately,” concludes Sampaoli. Isco has already negotiated his departure.
Source: La Verdad
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