La Real has found a hot potato related to one of the youth squads for whom it has bet more solidly, but which it has not been able to dispose of due to injuries. Is about Martin
Merquelanz (Irun, 1995), who is conducting a sensational campaign with Mirandés, backed by 13 goals and 10 assists between the League and the Copa del Rey this season. It is no coincidence that he was interested in five First teams in the winter market. The end of the quarry is now at a crossroads and much more after the words he dedicated to it Robert
Olabe in his virtual appearance last Thursday.
La Real has made a proposal to extend the contract that unites both parties until June 30, 2021. If the winger did not renew in this half year, he could freely negotiate with any team from January 1, 2021, and Athletic has appeared there. The rojiblanco club has been following him for years and would be very interested in taking it away for free next year.
The doubts it harbors Merquelanz they are fundamentally sports. This season he has felt full and has offered his best version at Mirandés because he has played almost everything, but he is not seen in that situation in Real, with the competition of top players like Oyarzabal, Januzaj, For your or Barrenetxea. This is dissuading you from signing, but Olabe he ruined his pretext and promised on Thursday that both he and Guridi They will have “place and weight” in the Txuri Urdin first team next season. The Real football director also urged him to be demanding of himself and ambitious and not to make his decision only obsessed “in playing it all”.
To which he did not respond Olabe went to the question of whether Merquelanz He will continue to have a place in the first squad next season if he continues without signing his renewal with the club Txuri Urdin. It is understood that his options would decrease. It would be a situation similar to that suffered by Alex
Remiro in Athletic last year, but the other way around. In the last interviews with the player, he haggled over issues related to his renewal.
When I was young at the Antiguooko, Merquelanz He also received a proposal from Athletic and was ready to leave until Real arrived and was interested. And she dressed in txuri urdin. The footballer has so far been unable to make the jump to the first team because his injuries have prevented him on three occasions. In the preseason three years ago in the Netherlands, playing as a left back with Eusebio, he had to return to Donostia for suffering a severe shoulder injury.
When he was better at the Sanse and they planned to give him opportunities up in January 2018, he fractured the anterior cruciate ligament of his left knee and suffered the same injury in the other joint when he debuted at Real in August 2018 in Ipurua.