“A call like this is like football itself: all joy and happiness.” The words of Mikel
Merino about his recent call-up with the absolute Spanish team describe a football player unleashed. In a sporting and human sense. The Navarrese will make his debut with Luis Enrique's team in the run-up to his third season at La Real.
Merino find a pivotal person in your progress as a player. It is Imanol
Sheriff, as he confesses in an interview he has given in the last hours to the Movistar channel ‘Vamos’. Coach txuri urdin is “very important” in his career, sums up the Osasuna youth squad.
The footballer with the most minutes at Real during the past season states that Imanol “It is the greatest supporter of my improvement, of my growth.” Mikel
Merino does not waste a single compliment to the oriotarra. “My current level cannot be understood without him,” says the midfielder.
Merino's qualities captivated Imanol as soon as the oriotarra assumed the controls of the bench in the campaign 18/19, once dismissed Asier
Garitano. “From his first day he put me to play,” recalls the Navarrese. Merino dusts off a conversation with the coach who marked him. A statement of intent that describes in detail the emergence of an alter ego: “He told me that the stripes in the center of the field were going to be mine and that he trusted me.”
Silva, “a spectacular signing”
Merino rev up your engines for an exciting course. “We are a very young team that is very keen,” he warns. With “ambition” as a flag, the Pamplona bet not to lower his guard of the objectives and is based on the fact that “this year we have young and strong legs to maintain the level”. For this reason, he believes that the team's gaze must be directed to “continue entering Europe and fight to the fullest in all competitions.”
For Mikel
MerinoObviously, the bomb blast has not gone unnoticed either. David
Silva: “It happened suddenly, from one day to the next, without any rumor,” explains the realist. In his opinion, it is “a more spectacular signing, which makes us have more ambition,” he defines. The Navarrese is clear that the Gran Canaria “is still in full swing” because “he has shown it this year.”