Xabi Prieto: “If Real enters Europe, perhaps Odegaard will stay”

Xabi Prieto is the best ambassador that Real Sociedad can have around the world. The same participates in an awards ceremony that participates in a LaLiga talk prior to the restart of the competition, in which he does not hesitate to defend who until two years ago was his team and of whom he is quite a legend. For the donostiarra there is no doubt, Real have earned the right to fight to enter the Champions League in the last eleven days of the League. “We have not been very funny about this stop because Real was very well, but I am confident that it will return strong, very young team and young people immediately plug in and take shape before the veteran, and I think they deserve to close a great season by entering the Champions League, now they are in fourth place one point from Sevilla, and in San Sebastián they dream of that, to be third, they are a very ambitious team and they are working very hard. From what they have been able to tell me, they have returned to training as airplanes, although I suppose that all the coaches will say something similar. The competition will score later, but I hope that Real will stay there. ”

And when he asks if clubs like Real and also Getafe, who were not called to fight for those Champions League positions, did not accuse the pressure of fighting for that goal, Xabi Prieto is clear that they can endure that tension and sees him prepared to endure the final league sprint. “I see Real Sociedad and Getafe fighting for the Champions League and they know how to withstand the pressure of that fight, they were doing very well so far and I have no reason to hesitate from now on, they are fourth and fifth on their own merits. I see you with many options. There will be a very nice fight with Seville and Atlético de Madrid, which they had a priori goal of entering the Champions at the beginning of the season. But the only reality is that Real is fourth and Getafe fifth, with the same points, and one point behind the third, so I see them with many options. ”

The former Real captain also signed up to the optimistic speech that there is for San Sebastián with the continuity of Martin Ødegaard one more season on loan from Real Madrid. Everyone is convinced that he will not return to the white club this summer. “I am moderately with Ødegaard staying at Real. Because all the statements that he makes and all the comments that there are in Donostia are very positive about his stay in San Sebastián and La Real, he is enjoying himself very much, and if the Real gets into Europe, more in Champions, it can make him stay one more year. I am confident that we can also enjoy Martin next season at Real, ”he says.