The march of Odegaard Real Madrid leaves a great void that the rectors txuri urdin will try to cover with the greatest guarantees. Logically, the heads of the recruitment unit are working at full capacity to find solutions to this and other positions. In Anoeta They did not plan to make any incorporation, because they understood that it was enough with the players who return from loan, but the departure of the Norwegian star opens a new scenario. The technicians are torn between looking in the market for a footballer of a similar cut to that of the Scandinavian, with the obvious difficulties that this entails, or shooting with footballers like Oyarzabal or Robert
Lopez that are already in the template.
When last year the sports management and the technicians were looking for footballers to reinforce the attack, one of the future ones on which they put the focus was the Danish Andreas
Skov
Olsen, which eventually ended up at Bologna in Serie A. The txuri urdin club negotiated with the player's agent, who was in Anoeta, and with his home club, the Danish Nordsjælland, in which the footballer uncovered all his offensive talent .
A matter of priorities
However, the Real rejected it because there were other priorities. The signing of Martin
Odegaard, who had already committed to Bayer Leverkusen to play the Champions League but changed his mind, and the continuity of Adnan
Januzaj, which was exploring other options, closed the doors of Hillerød, for whom the Royal Society was willing to pay six million euros. In the end, he finished for five at Bologna in Serie A, where he has not had a good season. Rather, bad.
“La Real could be a good destination. It is a very good club, which gives opportunities to young people, and the city is very beautiful, “said the man himself. Skov
Olsen after his debut in the European Under-21 last year, in which he scored a great goal and gave an assist in 17 minutes.
Last year, Aperribay acknowledged that the follow-up to the Danish was “very close” and that he is “a great player” and Olabe He stated that “he is another player that we follow, with a lot of talent.”
For the Real to launch for him there are two obstacles. The first is that it is not a player equal to Odegaard. He is left-handed, has an offensive vocation, but has more traces of a forward than a midfielder. On the few occasions in which he has started at Bologna, he has always done so in the line of three, or as a midfielder behind the striker or on the right.
22% of the minutes
The other problem is that his performances in an elite league like Italy have left a lot to be desired. He has not had much prominence, since he has played 22% of the minutes in the league, a total of 747. He has started only six games out of 38 and has scored a goal, against Naples, but has not been able to give any assistance. The Bologna coach himself, Sinisa
Mihajlovic, stated that he was not satisfied with the performance of Skov
Olsen.
There are already teams like Rangers that have requested his loan and others like Copenhagen or Besiktas that have been interested, but Bologna is more of a party to sell him.