David López: “I would like to stay, but I don’t know yet”

David López, who said goodbye between tears and applause in the last game of the season at the RCDE Stadium against Valencia, went through the PQV program to review his career and talk about the future, which for the moment remains uncertain although surely with a quick outcome , taking into account that Diego Martínez was presented this Tuesday and the sports management must also decide on his renewal. His contract expires on June 30. “I would like to stay, hopefully, but I don’t know yet,” he said.

The footballer, who has accumulated nine campaigns since his first campaign at Espanyol with a two-year break at Napoli, finds no explanation for the instability of the parakeet first team. “Every year there is something, let’s see what happens this one. With the arrival of the new coach it’s exciting, let’s see if it works and people get hooked. All hand in hand”, commented the midfielder, who this season has barely been able to participate 743 minutes. His worst moments at Espanyol were “the descent and knee injury” and the best “the promotion and the European classification”.

David López stays with Rafa Benítez (“he was important and key”), football has given him great friends such as Javi López, Víctor Sánchez, Diego López or Gerard Moreno and he stays with the quality he saw when he was first promoted to the first team with “Sergio García, Verdú and Osvaldo”. A start that was not rosy: “I had to break stone. It’s reality and it’s a part of football. It’s not all that easy. I had to find a life for myself, I had to show that I was worth it. Later, when you arrive, you value the effort. From being in the First Division to going to Second B is a jug of cold water. But it also tans.”

The Espanyol captain also referred to one of the controversial issues of the relegation stage, his statements after the match against Osasuna in El Sadar. “I like El Sadar, it transmits a lot, especially its animation tier. Over time you realize that it was normal for him to react like that. I was very pissed off, there was tension and the wires got crossed. I also had a bad time, now I’m joking. It made me feel bad because it wasn’t a problem of attitude, we were what we were and it was a complicated field, they pressed a lot and we had what we had”commented the player of Sant Cugat.

He also rewound his career when he spoke of his ultimately scuttled move to Betis when he returned from Napoli. He finally relapsed back to Espanyol. David López wanted to qualify because he did not sign for Betis despite passing the medical review. “I was in Napoli and I wanted to go out. I had been in talks with Espanyol but Quique wanted to bring his own. I was in Seville, I traveled, I took the photo at the airport and I passed the medical examination. I stayed a week, I looked for a house. But the one from Betis told me that it was broken by the forms of payment. I went to Barcelona, ​​and while I was at the Seville airport, Ramon Robert called me and everything was triggered,” he concluded.