“I ran into a technician who didn’t want to count on me”

Colombian soccer player James Rodriguezthe Al Rayyan Qatari, assured that he would have liked to stay longer at Everton but regretted having run into the Spanish coach Rafael Benítez, who told him he did not count on him.

The former soccer player Real Madrid and Bayern Munich He assured in a Twitch broadcast that Everton “is a club” in which he would have liked to “be longer” but, he assured: “I ran into a coach who did not want to count on me, he wanted to be there.”

“Unfortunately they are things of taste and the coach did not want to count on me, he is respectable. While I was there I was a professional and gave myself to the fullest, I like to be remembered in each team as a good person and professional,” said the 30-year-old player.

James played the 2020/2021 season at the Evertonwith whom he scored six times and served nine assists, but when Benítez came in to replace Carlo Ancelotti he was relegated and ended up leaving the team bound for the Qatar League in the summer market.

On the other hand, the also former Porto player assured that he still does not know how much longer he will play in Qatarbut he said: “Yes, I would like to go somewhere else”.

“To return to Europe, why not. I have the conditions, I’m picking up the pace, waiting for what happens. Another good option is to go to the US. I like it a lot, but there’s not enough time for that,” he asserted. Rodriguez.

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