Mariano does not flinch

Life goes on the same for Mariano Díaz Mejía. The arrival of Ancelotti has not altered the situation inherited from the time of Zidane with respect to the Madrid forward either. As reported by AS, the Italian has told the club that the nine that will be the replacement of Benzema is Jovic and he told Mariano himself that he is the third in line. But as this newspaper learned, nothing changes. In the few conversations with the entity, the Spanish-Dominican striker transmitted through his people that his idea is to stay. Although he has only played 1,580 minutes (six goals) since the summer of 2018, he does not want to go to another team. Madrid has resigned and assumes that, unless Mbappé comes and we have to find a solution to the chips even if it is drastic, Mariano remains. An immobility that has become the norm and the forward has contract until 2023 …

Mariano seems unfazed by his sporting situation while climbing selfies to Instagram with his bulldog, boxing or marking muscle, Adama, in front of the mirror. Although his relationship with the recently returned Ancelotti does not reach the extreme of the one he had at times with Zidane, practically nonexistent, he has not been convinced either. The preseason has been 'won' by Jovic and Mariano has to wait again in the abyssal depths of the bench. If you had any doubts about Ancelotti's word, Carletto cleared it fast because He introduced the Serbian in the field both in Mendizorroza and this past Sunday in the Ciutat de València.

Mariano was a specific request from Julen Lopetegui that Madrid continues to pay for three years later. The white entity has tried to place him on another team in all transfer windows since 2019, without success. The closest he was was last summer, with Benfica, but Mariano put obstacles and more obstacles to the transfer and finally it did not occur although Madrid and the Benfica club almost made public the loan agreement to take him to Da Luz. Since, due to the pandemic, the club began a plan to cut wages and try to get rid of high salaries, Mariano has always been at the top of the list of candidates to have to look for the beans elsewhere, but the will of the attacker has always prevailed.

Mariano at 28 years old does not give up his comfortable life in his Madrid mansion and a spectacular salary (more than € 4M net per year) in Chamartín for more than in the 2019-20 season, for example, he did not get to play or the minutes corresponding to an entire game. That Zizou campaign gave him only 84 minutes. This one that starts, now with Ancelotti, seems destined to be a copy of his previous courses at Madrid …