The Catalan coach Òscar Garcia Junyent He made his debut in the first team of Celta Vigo Gabriel Veiga. In September 2020 when he was only 18 years old, and almost three years later, good European teams bid for the signing of a midfielder that the coach compared “to former midfielders like Frank Lampard either Steven Gerrard“.
“He is still young to compare with someone but he has things from old former midfielders like Lampard, Gerrard…”, said Òscar Garcia in a chat with EFE.
The coach, aware of the importance of the youth academy in the clubs he has led throughout his career, saw this quality “which is not abundant in many midfielders” and that is why he gave him an alternative.
Besides, Òscar Garcia epitomizes the maturity of a player under the age of 21. “At his young age, I hope he can improve a lot because I want him to reach the highest level he can, because he has the conditions, and also a head,” he said.
Now, with 46 appearances in the first team of Celta VigoGabri Veiga is on everyone’s lips and this Saturday (9:00 pm) he is playing at a Santiago Bernabeu where the eyes will focus on him, because he is related to a possible signing of real Madrid.
A future where the coach who debuted him in the elite does not want to “advise him in public” and open his hand to future advice because the same is still “in touch”.
Of course, Òscar Garcia bet that the next steps in the midfielder’s career go through a team where he has regularity at the same time, without wanting to enter the case of the possible interest of real Madrid, pointed out the great competition he will have in the middle of the white team’s field. “At the level he has, he can play in any League, although I would like to see him play anywhere but every week,” he said.
“If it is to play regularly, any level of the team looks good to me, even if there is a lot of competition, maybe they will play less, at the age they are to develop and reach the highest they can reach, they will have to play every week,” he insisted when asked about Real Madrid.
A way out of last pearl of Celta de Vigo’s prolific youth team that from the club they ignore the end of the season due to the “dizzying numbers” that some European clubs have made to the footballer, as the president of the entity pointed out recently, Carlos Mourinho in an interview at the EFE Agency headquarters in Madrid. “We always say that we don’t sell, but they will buy it from us; I want to make a big difference,” he said.
“I don’t think – there is a possibility that he will stay – because he is moving in dizzying figures. As the president of Celta I can send my fans all the messages of hope that I can, but I am deceiving them .we we have to maintain a great balance in the youth academy, and we do this using possible clauses for the player. These players had, in training, opportunities to go to other teams and they preferred to stay with us because they had the opportunity to play. This is what we have to pay for. And we do this by telling them that if they succeed and want to leave, they’ll have a great opportunity to do so.”
A Gabri Veiga with a clause of 40 million euros and he was one of the great stars of the 30th Day of LaLiga Santander.
Source: La Verdad
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