Asier Illarramendi He is the realist with the most derbies behind him, 16, and he cannot tell if his private accountant stops at 17 that he will reach, if he can play, on Saturday in Bilbao. 79 days after the end of his contract with Real, he has yet to renew and has no extension offer on the table. For all these reasons, he logically assures that “this may be my last derby, my contract is over and you don’t know, it might be yes or it might not.” For now, he said he prioritizes the collective’s ambitions: “I’m focused on meeting the team’s goals, as everyone should, and at the end of May or June 4, we’ll see.”
had doubts
The captain admitted that in this process he had “doubts” and even thought that he would not have a chance to win the renewal: “At the beginning of the season I would say no, but now we will see.” The doubts are based on “whether I can enter the high level of this roulette wheel and in that part I am very happy: contributing and feeling useful”. That said, the testaments remain, the club’s and his. And nothing clear, though imanol He got wet and said that he wanted him in his squad for next year: “It depends on Real and me. On what he feels. But Real must also decide what team he wants to make for next year.”
He has no offer from the club
Since he has not yet had an offer from Real to expand his relationship, “the balance is more or less the same as before.” And it’s “for me to continue here we have to love each other and still have no contact.” The work, therefore, remains to be done, and it must be concluded that there are also doubts about its continuation at Real. “We have been together for a long time and there will be no problem in the conversation; with Róber (Olabe) and the prez I get along”, said ‘4’.
illarra He doesn’t have good memories of his last San Mamés derby. La Real lost 2-0 and recalled that “I had the bad luck to be injured for a long time.” This was the true beginning of his nightmare and at this moment “I sprained my ankle and I thought it was for less”. He remembers bitterly “I had doubts about whether I would be able to return at a high level because it was almost a year and a half away, but I was happy to come back and enjoy myself with my teammates” .
His best derby
Illarra has hope that this derby will be played because “it is always special” and because “we all like to play them and win them even more”. That is why he will be “happy” if he plays from the beginning, or in the second half, or against Getafe: “I played some important games. From less to more. Now with the physical feeling I was good, better and better”. In fact, it is the choice of imanol for the battle in Rome.
The memory of last year’s 4-0 is appealing to many players, but it isn’t illarramendi, which was not played: “I don’t feel revenge,” he explained. “Last year we lost 4-0, but I didn’t remember until they told me downstairs.”
can’t play either illarra the 2021 Cup final because he was injured the day before, so the derby he keeps the best memory of is “the 1-3 of the 2012/13 season, at the old San Mamés”. And he explains it like this: “I hope everything can be repeated, the result and the final objective, because we are fourth.”
Despite the recent downturn, illarra considering that “the team came well”. And he elaborates: “Lately we have not achieved great victories, but it is also difficult for others. We say that we have stopped winning a lot of points and nobody passed us.”
Source: La Verdad
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