Isco doesn’t lift his head. Neither does it with the change of coach. When it seemed that the arrival of Ancelotti could change his step in Madrid, the reality is that he still does not have minutes. In his last year of contract, it is possible to think that in this In the next winter market, Madrid could facilitate his departure by paying him part of his token and let his new team take care of the other part. But there is no solution in sight for the playmaker, because he still has no offer on the table.
At 29 years old, the one from Arroyo de la Miel is weighing a lot not having minutes when it comes to finding a new destination. Even being in his physical prime and having several years of his best football left, the lack of opportunities can even deprive him of his last great contract. The Malaga player is the victim of a midfield that is the only overcrowded line in the squad. Today, in addition to the title trivote (Casemiro, Modric and Kroos), he has ahead of Valverde, Camavinga (the latter, recently signed for 40 million euros) and even Antonio Blanco, a bet for the future from La Fábrica. With that outlook, it’s no wonder Isco has a hard time keeping a cool head.
If you already had a run-in with Zidane in the final stage of the French coach at Madrid, Now it seems that to Isco he pointed out what happened in Granada with Ancelotti. Isco had been warming up for much of the second half alongside Jovic and Camavinga. He thought that the Italian coach was going to make a triple change when the time came, with the game resolved, but he did not come out. And he sat on the bench angry. After that event, Ancelotti has him symbolically punished. Substitute and without minutes against Sevilla and Athletic.
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However, Isco’s problems with Ancelotti come from a little further behind. In the games against Espanyol, Barça and Osasuna, in mid-October, Isco had some strange back problems that left him without entering those calls. Since then, the Italian coach has stopped counting on him. Isco became a starter in two (Levante and Betis) of the first three league games of the season. Ancelotti gave him that opportunity … but Isco ended up not fitting in.
A stellar past.
The man from Malaga arrived at Real Madrid in the summer of 2013, from Malaga, for 30 million euros. He was only 21 years old and was the fashionable player in Spanish soccer. He was a starter in two of the three Champions won by Zidane (managing to seat Bale). And in 2014, with Ancelotti, he went out with Marcelo in the second half and both changed the final until they won it. In total, there have been 343 games and 52 goals wearing Madrid’s white. But he is living a kind of ordeal in these last two seasons at Madrid. Blocked, no offers, and waiting to finish his contract to start a new football life.