MADRID.- The coach of real Madrid, Alvaro Arbeloaurged the French forward this Wednesday Kylian Mbappé to demonstrate “his commitment” to the team in the last three games of the league season.
“If he is there and can complete the training session and is available, then surely he will have minutes… and the opportunity in these three games to continue demonstrating the commitment he has to the club,” Arbeloa said at a press conference.
The Merengue coach hoped that Mbappé would play those three games “scoring goals, demonstrating, as I said, the commitment he has to Real Madrid and that, as a coach, but above all as a Real Madrid fan, is what I would like to see.”
Mbappé was absent on Sunday in the league classic that Real Madrid lost 2-0 and that gave them LaLiga to Barça, as he has not recovered from a muscle injury.
His absence reignited the controversy surrounding his behavior, considered too individualistic by some sectors.
Asked about the term “commitment” used by the coach, Arbeloa considered that Mbappé has given 100% for the club.
“All my players. I couldn’t think differently, I couldn’t believe that a Real Madrid player doesn’t leave everything he has for the club, because then he wouldn’t know where he is,” said Arbeloa, before facing the already relegated team on Thursday. Oviedo in the penultimate LaLiga game.
Support for Florentino
Arbeloa also took the opportunity to support everything said by the team president, Florentino Perezin his appearance on Tuesday, in which he denounced a campaign by the press and certain social sectors against Real Madrid.
“I think that any Real Madrid fan who listened to our president yesterday strongly agrees with defending the interests of Real Madrid and its partners,” said Arbeloa, rejecting that the club has hit rock bottom after the poor results of the season.
“There is no club in the world that wins the European Cup, not even every year in LaLiga, and from then on I believe that with determination and determination Real Madrid will win again for sure,” he stated.
Arbeloa assured that he did not understand talk of “institutional instability, of disaster, of a disunited locker room”, claiming that “Real Madrid has been doing many things well for a long time. It is a healthy club, a club with a lot of stability, a very well-run club.”
The Merengue coach defended the management of President Pérez, who on Wednesday announced the call for elections, convinced that “if there is someone capable of turning this situation around, I think it is Florentino Pérez.”
With rumors growing about a possible interest from Real Madrid in the Portuguese coach Jose MourinhoArbeloa avoided talking about his future.
“Once the league is over, we can or will be able to answer all the questions about my future and well, I think that right now what we have to do is think about Oviedo,” he said.
