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Luuk de Jong played his best minutes this past Sunday against the Mallorca. Two sticks, one of them after a spectacular and plastic shot to the crossbar of the Chilean half, and the winning goal. A spectacular background after ninety minutes, but insufficient for what he has shown during the four months he has been at Barcelona. The Dutchman, who enjoyed a last chance, was sentenced before changing into the Son Moix dressing room. In fact, he was one of the first names Xavi gave when he landed on the Camp Nou bench and they asked him about the footballers he did not have. The front it didn’t fit the script from Egarense, who needs attackers with more mobility and association capacity.
However, the numerous casualties and the effects of the coronavirus played in favor of the striker and he was able to claim his first start with Xavi.
He gave the three points to Barcelona, a victory that allows him to dream of getting into the Champions zone and even an illusory assault on the leadership after him. stumble of Real Madrid in Getafe. But that victorious header does not give credit to the player at the Camp Nou and his departure is a matter of time. Mateu Alemany has already telephoned Monchi a couple of weeks ago to try to rescind the forward’s loan agreement, but Sevilla have their places in attack covered and Lopetegui does not love him. The football director was not hiding when assessing the future of Luuk de Jong after the match against Mallorca. “We will see, he knows the situation, we have spoken with him, he is a superprofessional and we will see, it will depend on the market, what he wants and the circumstances that occur,” the executive revealed, opening the door to the attacker.
Various output options
With a good showing in the Eredivisie (he has played in De Graafschap, Twente and PSV Eindhoven), one of the possibilities is to try his return to the Netherlands, but also Cádiz, Fenerbahçe and Besiktas have been interested in your services. Even these last few days there has been speculation about the possibility of her landing at the Juventus, in an operation that should lead Morata to dress as a Barça player. A complicated carom. And more taking into account the problems of financial fair play that Barça has to register players, as Mateu Alemany himself acknowledged yesterday during the presentation of Ferran Torres, who they still cannot register. «The reality is that when we signed Ferran we knew that we had no salary limit, we assume it and we have been working in several ways and we are convinced that we will achieve it before Sunday. It is our forecast », explained the football director.
Luuk de Jong is one of the outings that Alemany values, although Xavi praises the forward’s involvement and throws balls out when asked about his future. «It is an example of a professional. It is said that he can go out, but he works, he sacrifices. He is a brutal professional. I am happy with him. Today has been useful to us. It is an example for everyone, but andlet’s see the future. We’ll see if there are exits and entrances. But they are all hypotheses “, the technician limited himself to saying.
The forward, on the sidelines
De Jong is calm as he waits for his future to be solved. After breathing relieved and assuring that “for a striker it is important to score goals”, he assured that if he had scored the goal of the Chilean half that was stamped on the crossbar “it would have been one of the best goals of my career». And, knowing that he was being questioned and on the starting ramp, he avoided saying in terms of the future: «I am prepared for when the coach asks me to. In circumstances like the ones we have experienced this week, it is when it is seen that we are a team. Something important is being built. We are fine and it is already being seen that we are going to go forward », the attacker limited himself to pointing out.
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