Isco Alarcón has broken his silence after a long time in silence. The midfielder from Malaga has given an interview to Marca to talk about his personal and professional situation. Without a team since he terminated his contract with Sevilla last January, he is still waiting to find a destination that excites him. The former Real Madrid soccer player is 31 years old and exercises with a personal trainer in the strangest preseason of his career. He says that he still keeps “the illusion of playing intact” and that he misses “the ball and the competition.” “I want to feel like a footballer again.”
During that conversation with the Spanish sports newspaper (divided into two chapters), Isco confirms his bad relationship with the then Sevilla sports director, Monchi, and confesses that he came to attack him when they were discussing the footballer’s situation at the Seville club. in those last months of last year in a delicate sporting situation.
Once Julen Lopetegui had been fired, Isco had been left without his supporter at Sevilla and he assures that Monchi said he wanted to leave the club and a way out was sought for him when the down payment felt comfortable in the Andalusian capital. In a second conversation, he told Monchi that he was not being sincere. “I told him that he was the most deceitful person I had ever encountered in the world of football and he attacked me. He came towards me, grabbed me by the neck, we moved away and they had to separate us.”
After that, he assures that he did not want to continue “under any circumstances” in a club where the sports director attacked him and nobody spoke up or apologized. “I forgave my contract and left.”
Isco defends that he did not “get off the boat” as many people blamed him or that the decision was made due to his poor performance because he was also playing with Sampaoli. “It doesn’t fit into my mentality, I’ve been at Real Madrid for many years and I’ve never given up, I’ve always tried to shovel a place for myself”. He assures that he lowered his salary “four times” compared to what he earned in Madrid, where he had terminated his contract. He felt disappointed, but aware that he lives “a privileged situation and that there are people with really serious problems.”
One of the most talented footballers in Spanish football in recent years was left without a team and it was not until the last transfer day in January when he received the call from Union Berlin. He immediately traveled to the German capital, but there he found that his contract had been lowered three times and that in the last proposal he was planted. “In fifteen minutes I had changed half of my contract. It was disrespectful. I’m not 18 years old and it’s not my first contract, so I said I wasn’t signing.”
After that frustrated signing, he felt that “I needed to disconnect, clear my head, mentally I was not prepared for another move, another project… I felt that I needed to stop, do therapy, order my mind, order my life, my thoughts…”. He decided not to accept any proposal from Arabia or Qatar because he assures that “money is not a priority, otherwise I would not have gone to Sevilla”. “I want to play, compete and have fun” and he wants to do it in a team that has “an associative style”. “What I want now is to enjoy, if more titles come, the better. I’m young and I have many years of football at a good level left.”
