The Seville This summer has lived a situation tremendously similar to what happened 14 years ago. You just have to change the rebellion at that time of Daniel Alves for not being transferred to Chelsea with that of Koundé a few weeks ago and the stew has practically the same flavor. And, it is assumed, the management of this problem will be similar.
In August 2007 Daniel Alves refused to play on the first day of the league championship, at home against him. Getafe, and in the first leg of the Liga de Champions, also in Nerve but before him AEK from Athens in this case. It is true that if he had played that European game, he would not have been able to play the Champions League with any other club that signed him, although the only one who wanted him was a Chelsea who at that time raked in the same way as this summer for Koundé.
Alves went from hero to villain in Nervión. Even more so if one takes into account his bad start to the season, crowned with two consecutive expulsions on matchdays 12 and 14 against Villarreal and Almeria respectively. However, the club recovered the Brazilian for the cause, who finished the season playing 48 games in which he scored 4 goals and gave 18 assists, in addition to wearing the captain's armband in several of them. To round it all up was transferred to Barcelona for 45 million euros, the largest sale in the club's history.
The parallelism with the Koundé story is evident. Now it remains to be seen if the club and the player are capable of redirecting the situation more quickly than there was with Alves. Because everything indicates that the soap opera will have a very similar development and ending.