Liga Santander: Barcelona, ​​in its search for a striker, asked for Real Madrid's Mariano | LaLiga Santander 2019

• Real Madrid.
  

  Mariano's infinite faith
  

In the midst of the scoring crisis and with the season at stake, Zinedine Zidane still does not look at the strikers he has on his list of substitutes. Luka Jovic is having sporadic opportunities and Mariano Díaz It doesn't even enter the calls. The canterano was close to leaving in the winter market to Seville, but his high salary (five million euros) slowed the operation. More surprising was the call that the ram's environment received weeks later.

The Barcelona, in his desperate career to hire a 'nine' after the injury of Luis Suarez, he probed the possibility of seizing Mariano. A possibility that Real Madrid did not consider, without interest the white club in reinforcing its maximum rival. The Catalans ended up buying the scorer of Leganés, the Danish Braithwaite, after discarding Angel, substitute for Getafe, or Lucas Pérez, from Alavés.

Zidane encouraged Mariano, both in summer and in the past winter market, to find another destination. Two years earlier, in 2017, he recommended leaving Lyon Olympique to have minutes He listened to the council, taking advantage of his year in the French league.

However, on his return to Madrid he is not having a fortune. The injuries ruined last season and in the current one, it does not count at all in Zidane's plans (he has only played in both games of the Spain Supercup). His high salary also prevented him from setting off in January. Sevilla, for example, preferred to finally opt for En-Nesyri, after shuffling the Madridista option.