Rafa Alkorta has revealed that it was the players of the rojiblanca first team who yesterday, the day the market closed, asked him to sign Fernando llorente, an incorporation that in the end the Board chaired by Aitor elizegi He decided not to attack before the division among the social mass caused by the Navarrese striker.
“The players were the ones who started the process in the morning,” said the former international center, at a press conference in San Mamés that he offered after appearing to present Alex Berenguer, the only player that Athletic has incorporated into the so-called summer market
“The players ask me to see if they can bring Llorente, because they believe that the team can improve, “said a Alkorta who spoke a Llorente with whom he spoke and stated that “I wanted to return to Athletic.”
“We have been with him, we have given him an offer, there is a moment that we believe can be brought to him and there is a moment in which the club decides that it is not necessary to undertake a transfer,” explained the operation.
Given the strangeness that journalists transferred to him due to the situation that the players are asking for a transfer, Alkorta He said: “Yes, I have seen it on other occasions and when I was playing.”
The sporting director has also recognized that Javi martinez has rejected the offer made by Athletic to return to the market that was closed yesterday night. The former player has hinted that the economic proposal launched by Ibaigane was much lower than what he perceives in Bayern Munich, a team in which he has finally stayed until at least the transfer window that will open in January.