The trajectory of Mikel
Oyarzabal in the less than five years that have elapsed since he debuted at the Real he is spectacular. He is just five official games away from reaching 200 defending the elastic txuri urdin and he has already scored fifty goals as Blue and Whites, figures that undoubtedly draw the trajectory of an out of series. So much so that he even becomes a reference figure for young people who are only three years younger than him.
This has been made clear Ferran
towers, the 20-year-old Valencia winger who has just signed for Manchester City. The pearl of the ché quarry, in an interview granted to Marca in which he has not left a puppet with his head, points out that one of the conditions that he put in order to be able to renew in Mestalla was that he be named captain, as did the Real with Oyarzabal in the summer of 2018, when he has just turned 21. “It was my dream, because I had seen how other clubs had done that with the young people of the house, like Oyarzabal or Fernando Torres, to retain them ”, he commented Ferran.
Weeks after Xabi
Tight retired, and in the midst of the offensive of the Athletic for trying to sign Oyarzabal, the txuri urdin club made a move and raised it almost to the highest point in the hierarchy of the club. The transfer of powers had already been staged in the field, when Prieto placed the ikurriña on Illarramendi in their last meeting against Leganés, but when it came to choosing the lieutenants of the mutrikuarra, the Royal bet on Oyarzabal, next to Zurutuza and Agirretxe, to whom the responsibility for seniority corresponded. For this purpose, the Eibarrés ended up being captain on the pitch in more than a few games since Agirretxe announced his withdrawal in September, Illarramendi he was injured in February and Zurutuza his gradual loss of prominence began. A few days after the Royal winked at him, naming him captain, Oyarzabal renewed. All an example for Ferran
towers, who would have liked Valencia to have done the same with him.