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Luka Jovic's Paradise Lost

2020-09-29T19:54:03.156Z


The Serbian striker from Madrid, who tried unsuccessfully to return to Eintracht, where he excelled, seeks his destination against the clock in Italy or the Premier


When Luka Jovic saw that what the season promises him are many afternoons on the bench watching from there how Karim Benzema plays, he tried to return to Frankfurt, the place where he was happy.

"I wanted to return to Eintracht, but we are not looking for a nine," confirm sources from the German club, who say that the 22-year-old striker is searching the major leagues in search of a team that guarantees him minutes.

Last year he only had 806 with Real Madrid and he does not want another year like that.

In the club's offices they agree that inactivity does not suit an investment of 60 million euros and they remain on the lookout.

Like Zinedine Zidane, who this Tuesday insisted on the uncertainty of the last days of the market: "Until the 5th, we will see," he said shortly before publishing the list of 23 summoned to receive Valladolid this Wednesday (9:30 p.m., Movistar LaLiga) , in which he included the Serbian and Borja Mayoral, two nines who these days have been looking for a way out.

"One of the two would have to leave," say club sources familiar with his movements;

"Benzema is going to play everything."

Like last year.

Hence, Jovic tried to return, at least a year on loan, to the team that put him on the radar of the big European clubs.

The Serbian's talent does not germinate in any environment.

After starting to show his head in the Red Star, Benfica signed him in January 2016, but in Lisbon some night slip and a strange accident in a swimming pool left him in the technician's storage room.

His next stop, in the summer of 2017, was Frankfurt, where he arrived on loan in search of redemption.

He was rescued by the coach, Croatian Niko Kovac, who has best known how to decipher it.

She put him to live in the same hotel and took him almost by the hand to the gym or to training.

Under this intensive marking and surrounded by a small

Balkan

troupe -

Kovac, winger Ante Rebic and sports director Fredi Bobic - Jovic exploded in the 2018/19 season: 27 goals and seven assists in 3,302 minutes.

But now Kovac is at Monaco;

Rebic, at Milan;

and Eintracht is looking for something else.

"You will have to look for a medium team," say sources from the German club.

Zidane's defense

In Madrid he has not found anything that looked like that.

"He hardly speaks Spanish, he barely interacts with anyone, and as soon as training ends he is the first to leave," says a source with access to the white changing room.

His initial disappointment coincides with that registered in the noble zone, where in some offices, impatient for a generational change in which they have spent a couple of hundred million, they reproach Zidane for not having given him enough opportunities.

Opta recalled a fact on Saturday: in the eight games in which the Serbian has started with the white jersey he only shot twice on goal.

The white coach stirred this Tuesday before the objections to his management of young talent: “These questions always make me laugh.

This is Madrid.

I am here every day with the players.

That Vini has played 34% of the games, and the other 32% and the other 31%?

This is not going to change, man.

This is the reality of soccer: you play, you don't play.

This is life.

And it's not going to change, whether it's me or another coach.

If you have a squad of 25 players, every game you're going to put 11 in, huh.

There is no need to dwell on that.

And I will always choose.

Until it touches me.

When it's not my turn, let someone else do what they want to do, ”said the French coach.

Although it does not seem to be the part of his work that he enjoys the most: “We are already many.

Are you going to bring people back here?

For what?

It is already difficult to make a team, because they are all very good ... ", she said.

"I am very happy with what I have."

However, the final composition of the squad is still unknown, and not only because of the unknown in the group of nines, but also because Nacho keeps the line open with Naples and Roma, according to sources familiar with conversations conditioned on the movement from other players.

Under the monumental storm of the pandemic, an unusual end of the market has unfolded in Madrid, with an eye not on who will be the surprise arrival, but on which players will end up leaving.

While Jovic has tried to speed up his move, Mayoral, with a year on his contract ahead of him, has slowed down his move, which has been very close these days to sending him to Rome, according to sources close to the operation.

In any case, according to Zidane, the outcome will not be based solely on sporting reasons: “You have to take everything into account.

In the end there are many things that always come into play, ”he said.

Meanwhile, Jovic, in search of minutes, offers himself a loan in Italy and the Premier after being rejected in his lost paradise.

Source: elparis

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