The absurdity of Llorente sabbatical

Fernando Llorente has declared on Tuesday that season finale leaves the Athletic Club. Not a surprise considering the previous situations that have lived in the home has been football and practically vital. Will that be a free agent under his arm, as his contract ends next June 30, and will, also, after a season almost blank. Leave behind 17 years in the rojiblanco, more than half of his life (the Rioja turns 28 in February), which has gone through all the ranks and from where he started in professional football. Your future lies away from San Mames, a theater that has idolized, he has seen in his figure the perfect successor Julen Guerrero, which, however, has lately been truncated a relationship that seemed unshakable.

Last summer, after participating in a European Championship where he conspicuously did not have any minute, but after a temporadón personal and collective level with Athletic team which finished runners of the Europa League and Copa del Rey, the ram riojano decided that the cycle had come to an end Lezama. Given their contractual circumstances, the Basque side could have taken all possible performance to its highest figure on the pitch in recent years, since the end of their relationship in 2013, and taking into account the willingness of the player - refusing to irrefutable renew -, ventured a sale that would have met the coffers rojiblancas on par Llorente had been able to start a more ambitious career-in his opinion-that he proposed the group led by Marcelo Bielsa.

But the lanky striker was left wanting a change of scenery. Josu Urrutia, as with Javi Martinez, stubbornly not to transfer as opposed to Bayern today nobody paid the buyout Llorente, who lives since it began season between ostracism and constant drip of issues surrounding his figure. Of course last undisputed happened to suck more bench that Pantoja and worse, has affected the performance of an unbootable Athletic, which has been removed from a Europa League a few months ago stood at the gates to lift and firm step that walks by the domestic championship. A few days ago the players union, FIFPro World-Athletic accused of blackmailing the footballer. Practice if you do not renew, you do not play, perfectly linked to the situation of the '9 'is being sued.

However, Llorente was responsible for ensuring that you do not feel blackmailed , and that all that is expected to help the team when he is third. However, the situation is increasingly untenable, although since the club does not seem to budge. It seems that in the winter is to solve the case as recently Urrutia not be said for the work to get rid of Llorente. The president seems determined not to get off the donkey ruinous in its management of the case and will not transfer it passes through the head in January , which would be the last chance to enter a certain sum of money for the striker. He, meanwhile, continue to serve on a bench that was too small, hoping that from 1 January to negotiate a future away from San Mames, yearning. It will, without doubt, the most appetizing candy market.