Isco, from bad to worse

If something was missing Isco to end a gloomy 2021 For him, it was being a victim of the Covid outbreak that has had Real Madrid in check since last week. The positive from Malaga has prevented him from traveling to Bilbao this Wednesday. A stick for Isco because Few options were better than San Mamés to play again after seven games without scratching a minute. The losses of Modric and Casemiro allowed him to enter Ancelotti’s plans even if it was initially as a substitute. Not for those …

This 2021 has seen less than ever Isco. In the calendar year he has only played 836 minutes (659 ‘in last season’s section and 177’ in this one) and has progressively sunk in the ranks of the white midfielders. In Bilbao the path had been cleared and not even the return of Dani Ceballos threatened, which will have to wait because the final tuning has caused an overload.

Carletto, inside of the management in public of his squad, he denies the friction between his son and assistant Davide Ancelotti and Isco in Granada although at the time he punished the man from Malaga with a silk glove a few days later in Tiraspol. He paid not to want to warm up with traveling … to not even warm up. Controversial issues aside, the Madrid coach admitted this past Tuesday in the preview that Isco’s absence in Bilbao is a setback “because this game could have been for him”. It would have been a Christmas truce to a situation that Ancelotti himself suggested as complex: “It is a complicated issue on a personal and technical level …”.

Free to fly

It will be more complicated, or less, depending on how you look at it, in ten days. At that time Isco will be able to negotiate and sign legally with whoever he wants, since enters the last six months of his contract with Real Madrid. At 30 years old (he will meet them on April 21) it seems the last opportunity to sign an important contract taking advantage of the advantage of being a free agent and trying to revitalize a career that has been stagnant in Madrid for a long time. The white club contemplates him within the list of players (together with Bale, Marcelo …) who will considerably lighten the salary mass from 2022 and the future of the Malaga could be linked to that of Julen Lopetegui, one of its maximum defenders.