Just 72 minutes has played Riqui Puig in this season with him FC Barcelona, and his future begins to be reflected in the Betis. The club of the thirteen bars is quite interested in adding a flyer of these conditions, and Pellegrini has made the request. However, it is not the first time that the Chilean coach has said it out loud.
At summer market and wintry of this year, the Betic coach communicated to Cord his great interest in having the services of the former Barça squad. However, he himself informed him that the operation was becoming difficult, since the player himself did not want to leave the game. Camp Nou. Your current situation is review, and the boy’s thinking may have changed.
The questioned and controversial coach, Ronald Koeman, is in charge of pushing the Barcelona midfielder to Betis little by little. For the coach, Riqui Puig is a great player, but he does not consider it to be a piece that must always be placed. In fact, he prefers to put other less experienced players ahead of him.
Among his arguments he expresses. “He has to improve in many aspects of the game. The other day he warmed up because he had a chance to get into the game, but I had to bring in another player because of Jordi Alba’s injury. He has to work like any young man, ”Koeman declared. The words have not sat very well in the matadeperence, which is already thinking of a solution for this same January market.
The overall goal is to sign the 22-year-old midfielder. The specific objective is to try to secure an assignment, with a possible purchase option. The Betic sports management is convinced that if they convince the player 100%, he has practically his pass. And it is that Barcelona would not object to giving way to a midfielder who is not present in the games.
In this way, Riqui Puig is getting ready to have his first foray as a professional away from Barcelona. Although there is also talk of a return, and it is that the midfielder took his first steps in the Benjamin team of Betis. In fact, that talent was the one that gave him a quick pass to enter the youth team of the Blaugrana club in 2013.