Marco Asensio’s bluff with Barcelona is morbid, but it doesn’t work at Real Madrid

The “I can’t give you an answer” Marco Asensioin the interview at Cope, about whether he is one of those Real Madrid players who would never play for Barcelona, It is a lukewarm response and an infidelity. This is how a fan can see it and let alone an Asensio fan who still has hopes that he will continue to wear white for longer. Time will tell if it is a betrayal. What it is, or so they see it in the club, a streetlight with which to assert yourself.

Asensio is in the last season of his contract and in January he can negotiate freely with any club. The fact that he is associated with Barcelona comes from pearls. It is morbid, but it does not produce nerves in the offices of the white club. It is one more maneuver by the player and his agent, Jorge Mendes, to put himself on the market. Asensio needs to be in the showcase of luxury footballers who are a bargain if you can sign them at zero cost.

His link with Barça is easy to understand due to the friendship that Laporta has with Jorge Mendes. What is more complicated to accept is that Asensio continues the game and allows himself to be loved by Barcelona. In a renewal process, each party plays his cards, but it was not expected that the Balearic, to whom Florentino Pérez has a special affection, would enter the Barcelona game. Marco Asensio is interested in talking about Barça and more clubs are interested in him. But with Barcelona, ​​the only thing he achieves is to add fuel to the fire for the decision he has to make to resolve his future.

Suspicion in the club

Marco Asensio has missed the opportunity to wink at Real Madrid. He has not been blunt. He has let himself be loved by Barcelona. That is what remains of the interview that he was interested in giving at the concentration of the National Team. He has been tactless in a situation where he believes he has the upper hand. This further complicates the renewal process. it’s a throwbackafter a summer in which he had doubts about continuing and in the end he stayed because no offers came to the club and there is a suspicion that his strategy is to be free to sign a better contract with his future team.

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Marco Asensio’s position has not changed Regarding what he said at the end of last season, also in the concentration of the National Team. “I have to value many things”, was the way to assert themselves and publicly state to the club that they wanted more sporting and economic recognition. He warned that he contemplated the way to fulfill the contract and be free. The decision they made at Real Madrid was to cool down their case and not accept the pressure or enter into a bid. Marco Asensio decided to stay. He stepped back, lowered his profile and spoke to the coach. He promised Ancelotti that he would compete to win the minutes and there was no further progress. He remains without a renewal offer.

Asensio has an ace up his sleeve and is not telling the whole truth. “We’ll see what happens. You never know. In the world of football things can change very quickly. I can’t say more. I don’t know what’s going to happen,” he says about whether Real Madrid has offered him the renewal. Jorge Mendes has had contacts with Manchester United and Milan to prepare the ground and know in what conditions Marco Asensio could fit them. In this game, what a footballer who the club considers to be from home cannot imply is that he is in the middle of the negotiation. Asensio has changed. He defends his own. He is ambiguous. The Balearic considers himself and is closer to leaving Real Madrid than continuing.

The sixth striker

He has his reasons for the change that his head asks of him and that he has to finish maturing and decide with his agent. He is the sixth striker in Ancelotti’s plans. Ahead are Benzema, Vinícius, Fede Valverde, Rodrygo and even Hazard. The Belgian was the first change in Glasgow when Benzema was injured. This is hard for Asensio, but he has a coach who manages these situations with skill and psychology. Ancelotti, after the anger of the Balearic for not having played against Mallorca, put him on the field against Leipzig and that way it is easier to recover him for the cause. Not taking advantage of Asensio’s goal would be, for Ancelotti, throwing stones at his own roof.

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What is clearer Asensio is that it will cost him a lot to be a starter in a team that, without Benzema, has Vinícius, Fede Valverde and Rodrygo plugged in. It has been a surprise, even for Marco Asensio, that Luis Enrique has summoned him in the last list before the one he has to give for the World Cup. It is the best news in recent months for a footballer who cooks, over low heat, his future in another team and shows signs of resignationof being tired of Real Madrid not making a move.

Uncertainty continues in the Marco Asensio case. He spent a complicated month of August, the door opened, he hesitated to continue and now he wants to regain his calm. “I live in the present and I am happy,” she said at Cope. He is three months away from taking the reins of his destiny, from choosing a team and Jorge Mendes has already advanced work with other clubs. At Barcelona, ​​according to information from ‘Mundo Deportivo’, he would fit in because of his age (26) and his versatility. The same thing happened a few years ago with Isco and it didn’t work. The man from Malaga did not renew, he talked about Barcelona, ​​his fit in the Barça style, and he has ended up at Sevilla.

This matter has caused Marco Asensio’s statements to be compared with some passed by Fede Valverde, in the Ser, when they asked him if he would be able to play in the Barcelona in the future. “Out of respect for Real Madrid, for the values ​​they gave me at home, for the shield that I love and that feeds me, I wouldn’t play,” said the Uruguayan.

The “I can’t give you an answer” Marco Asensioin the interview at Cope, about whether he is one of those Real Madrid players who would never play for Barcelona, It is a lukewarm response and an infidelity. This is how a fan can see it and let alone an Asensio fan who still has hopes that he will continue to wear white for longer. Time will tell if it is a betrayal. What it is, or so they see it in the club, a streetlight with which to assert yourself.