The eighth footballer of the current squad to reach 100 games at Real Sociedad will be Mikel
Merino (Iruñea, 24 years old). The insulting youth of the Navarrese is mixed with the respectable residue of seniority that he captures. Appearances of age can be deceiving in the case of a Navarrese who is serving his third season as txuri urdin at the best moment of his professional career.
Established as an elemental pillar of the Royal, Merino It will be centenary as soon as one plays one more game. Maybe it's next Wednesday at the Cup. Or maybe Imanol give the midfielder 90 minutes of respite and have to wear the number 100 in the next League match, against the Betis in Anoeta. The achievement, in any case, is imminent. Merino will emulate the seven centenarians that are in the current campus: Oyarzabal, Illarramendi, Willian
José, Zaldua, Aritz, Zubeldia and Januzaj. And he will become the 142nd Real footballer to embrace the official three digits.
Merino will celebrate his 100 games in the Real when his clause rescission amounts to 65 million euros. By virtue of the agreement reached when it was renewed in July 2020, in each winter market, 5 million to the value of your freedom, valued at 60 at the time of extending the contract until 2025. Each summer the price of the clause will be lowered again to 60 million, until two years until the end of the link, when signing the Real midfielder will cost new 65 'kilos'.
By the head of Mikel
Merino it just happens to continue succeeding in Anoeta. Consulted sources assure MD that the international is convinced that the best idea is to focus on leaving the skin for the Real, where he is happy. In addition, during this winter window for the sale of footballers there is no one who has approached the Navarrese to try to hire him. Merino he is absolutely committed to the realistic project.
With coherent reasoning, a mature personality and clear ideas, Merino assured that “I want to be here for many years” in an interview with this newspaper in September. “It is a city and a club that have welcomed me very well, in which I feel at home, with values that are my own,” argued this Navarrese who lives around the corner of his land.
He knows that he turns 100 games
TO Mikel
Merino no one needs to remind him that he will complete 100 games for Real in his next game. The international media likes to have every statistic under control. The kilometers he travels in a game, how many times he completes the 90 minutes or what trajectory he is drawing in the Real. Therefore, he knows that he is in the chapel of being a centenary.
Imanol gave wings to Merino as soon as he became a Real coach for the first time. Thanks to the meticulous supervision of his work, the Osasuna youth squad is delighted with the role of leader assigned to him from the sports leadership. The wear and tear you notice from the accumulation of minutes is offset by how valued you feel. Hence it feels comfortable as a basic piece of gear.
Mikel
Merino He is the outfield player who plays the most, adding the League, the Europa League and the “bearded vulture” that he added to the deposit on the occasion of the Super Cup. 2,111 minutes that only the titular goalkeeper, Remiro, surpasses and that surpasses the role of other untouchables who have not been injured as You
Normand or For your.