Güler has made a momentous decision that will accompany him throughout his career as a footballer: choose money over a sports project. Barça and his current team, the one that has seen him grow, they offered him a road map that would allow him to play one more year in Turkey before showing up at the Camp Nou as a hero capable of rejecting the Spanish state club, which is the same as saying the Madrid state club because Spain, today, is Madrid and little else. Things of Castilian chauvinism.
The point is that Arda, whom those of us who are not dedicated to scrutinizing leagues that escape our closest radar did not know of at all a month ago, is good, very good. great. Just taking a look at his ‘highlights’ is enough to enjoy his talent for playing football. If he maintains the projection that he hints at, he looks set to become one of the greats.
The father of the very young Turkish footballer was visited in Istanbul to present his skills by Roberto Carlos, Deco, Butragueño… None of them was able to convince his father with football arguments, who was only interested in knowing what happened to me. An auction like the one that Haaland and his father set up before leaving Dortmund. modern football is this.
If the reasons that this player had given had to do with the ball, obviously, I would have had no doubts: I stay with my club for a year, I make my fans happy and, also, the club of which I claim to be a faithful follower. After the season, at only 19 years old, I put on the shirt of an entity in which, at a sporting level, Xavi rules. I am excited about the possibility of emulating Messi, starting from the same position, I enjoy Pedri’s talent, assisting Lewandowski, celebrating goals with Gündogan…
Arda Güler, new signing of Real Madrid
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But the Gülers have preferred to secure a copious bank account before accepting the challenge of dressing as a blaugrana player today. And there, precisely, is the key to everything, the reason that allows us to think that this footballer will get lost in one of the forks of no return that await in the path that has just begun to become just one more tiny trophy from Florentino Pérez stolen (so he must think) from Barça. The white president’s obsession is such that, to make his whims come true, he leaves behind a trail of impoverished players who could have been and who never will be because they have prioritized money over football.
What they have not explained to Arda Güler is that to be dazzled by the bills with so much talent is to become a pesetero long before a footballer. It is to stop dreaming big.