There were many puddles, but this one did not exist. Then they got to work. They took a little water, a little dirt and set up the quagmire. Well of mud. Then they began to splash. Everything that happened on Monday evening regarding the possible arrival of Fernando llorente it was nonsense. On the basis that each one will have their opinion with that of Rincon de Soto and it is legal, there are many people who do not forgive how they managed their exit from Athletic in 2013. However, the matter transcends further and has a multitude of edges. Some even that we do not know.
Do you establish contact with Llorente without having the consensus within the board of directors for his arrival and then he backs down due to a social issue? Makes for a tragicomic movie. What happens, that they had not realized until Monday what is still being generated in Bilbao every time the name of Llorente to the fore? If you consider his signing, it is to close it yes or yes because the negotiation is very simple. Especially since the forward was crazy about the music for it to crystallize.
The same is the first case in world football in which a club does not sign a player with the coach's yes (Garitano), the sports director (Alkorta), from the footballer himself (Llorente) and the other entity (Naples). But someone inside Ibaigane, a minority, was not for the work. Someone who has contributed, by the way, to put Garitano already Alkorta. Something is wrong here.
After the infamous defeat with the Cadiz, the coach did not allude to anyone in particular, but to a good understanding … He spoke of a “clear lack” in the position of center forward knowing that the market was open and that Llorente it could be an alternative. On Saturday, after the arrival of Berenguer, Garitano closed the incorporation chapter as follows: “From what the club tells me it is clear that with Alex we close”.
From which I intuit that he did not seem very satisfied with the situation. An immobility of the directive that does not make sense. He does not dismiss the coach, but neither does he grant him the tools he asks for and which he considers appropriate to get out of the quagmire. Those who rule in the Athletic They have managed to piss off those who were in favor of the signing of Llorente and those who did not want to see him even in painting for Bilbao. This is what happens when you try to look good with everyone, that you navigate between two waters.
And then there is the issue of the players, which shows a total rupture between the pitch and the upper echelons of the club. To begin with, it is highly debatable that they want to influence the hiring of a footballer, beyond offering their opinion, which is very respectable because they know better than anyone what there is and what there is no longer in the green and they are the That they put in the trigger when you lose. But that the idea of the signing leaves from the booth as revealed Alkorta
… the truth is that I had never seen it. And it does not leave the entity very well.