Yes, clichés are always there. It doesn’t fail. They go hand in hand with football, especially at the top of the pyramid. To repeated questions, chewed answers. But footballers, who are also people even if sometimes it doesn’t seem like it, say things for a reason. And if Manu Vallejo and Toni Villa state, bluntly, that they wish signing for Girona was the right decision, it is because they expect it to be so. Changing the air is never easy and aside from earning a living, players also want to enjoy themselves, feel loved and progress. Most, at least. “Everyone wants to be where they feel valued.” Words from Villa that could have come from the mouth of his teammate Vallejo. One and the other paraded, in a matter of minutes, through the press room of the Montilivi stadium. There was time for the usual phrases, the usual ones. Willingness to help the team, willingness to play wherever the coach wants and things like that. Of all this, however, the most outstanding was probably the explanation that both footballers offered to justify a change of life from one day to the next and what can move someone, apart from trying earn money, to change clubs. Of city, of life. They hope they made a good choice. They want to play, of course. And let the expected results come. But above all, to feel valued, loved, welcomed. The journey, although it has just begun, seems to be on the right track.
