The Spanish club ready to shell out the four million clause for the defender who wants to return home
NAPLES – This time the risk is really serious. Much more than a year ago he had feared Sarri < / strong> , fearing a future without him: in Spain everyone is convinced that Raul Albiol is really very close to returning home. At Villarreal , to be precise, a team from a city that is more or less 65 kilometers from Valencia , his home: and at 33, or rather 34 to celebrate on September 4, it would be a lifestyle choice. For the Spanish club, in a suffocating pressure on the player for a few days, it would be a 4 million euro deal: that is, the value of the termination clause included in the contract that binds him to Napoli until 2021 Sudden, almost dramatic scenario. Lightning on Ancelotti and su Raul : that at this point is the absolute master of his own destiny.
UNEXPECTED CHANGE – And then, the novelty. Unexpected: “My son will come to Spain only for the holidays: once the holidays are over he will return to Napoli, he wants to win the scudetto with Ancelotti” , said his father, Miguel Albiol, shortly before the last championship day. Not even a month ago: yes, but then? Well it happened that probably, indeed certainly something has changed. That Villarreal never gave up and after a summer it tried again, and then again, triggering a storm of doubts in the head of the Italian defense commander. El Patron, as his teammates have called him since 2013, the year of his arrival with Rafa, joking a little. The fact, however, is that this story is not a joke, and although Raul is close to the age of 34, and above all from an operation on the patellar tendon of his left knee, it will not be impossible but not even easy to find a replacement at the height. Both professionally and technically and tactically.
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