Bayer Leverkusen Lever Bek Alejandro Grimaldo once again admitted that he still “dreams” of returning to his boyfriend’s Barcelona Club, while distanced from any possible move Real Madrid or Atletico Madrid.
Grimaldo joined the Barcelona Academy as a 12-year-old and spent almost a decade painstakingly passing through various young teams before being sold to Benfica in 2016 without making any seniors Barcelona look. The defender born in Valencia spent seven and a half successful years in Portugual before Xabi Alonso broke him in Bayer Leverkusen.
A strong specialist in Komad repeated the extraordinary attacking exit that he produced for Benfica in one of the top five European leagues, helping Leverkusen win the first league of the club without any defeat.
The German Champion defenders did not go back to the same heights of this term, but Grimaldo is still one of the The best left -back in the world. However, if the 29-year-old left Leverkusen before his contract expired in 2027, there is one obvious destination he has in mind.
“I remember some interviews from the time I was a kid where I said my dream was to get to Barca’s first team, and that always remained my dream,” Grimaldo said SPORT This week.
“It’s clear to me in my head, even the club knows that. I want to return to Spain in the short term and medium -sized. I would like to experience being in Spain, because, after all, it’s my country. It’s a place where I want to play and enjoy this experience, and that’s one of my goals.”
Leverkusen’s chief Xabi Alonso was strongly intended In the summer, Real Madrid downloaded, and some suggest that he could bring Grimald with him. The player himself was not so in love with that hypothetical script.
“I don’t know what Xabi will do,” he said. “It’s a decision that concerns him himself. As far as I’m concerned, I grew up in La Masia [Barcelona’s academy]; It is a club where I grew up as a player and as a person, which is a club that I dreamed of playing from a baby. “
When Grimald was put on whether his clear dedication to Barcelona would rule to join Atletico Madrid Like the real, he said, “This is something I don’t want to go into it because football has a lot of turns and you never know what can happen.
“But it is clear, as I have told you, that I grew up in the barge and in the end, when you were in La Masia for seven or eight years, always carry it with you. This is what I can tell you right now.”
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