Aymeric Laporte stopped by El Larguero microphones to talk about various current affairs. Among the topics discussed was his future, and the center of the Spanish national team and victory made it clear that he would listen to a final call from Real Madrid.
About whether it bothers him to be associated with Real Madrid “I’m not aware of that. I have read the same thing as you, so there is no problem. Sounds good. Obviously you don’t look at teams like Real Madrid.”
Criticism of his departure to the Arabian Peninsula and nationalization: “The thing I do is play football and try to do my best. I will not rely on what people think to make decisions in my life. If I make important decisions in my professional life or in my personal life , it will be because I think it is the best for me. I’m obviously not going to do anything to hurt myself. This may be right or wrong, but we must always respect it.”
Saudi football: “It’s a different culture, but what I went to was playing football for not doing other things and so far things haven’t gone wrong for me. I managed to win a European Championship, which is the most beautiful thing that happened to me in my sports career. The way the group plays, how we live everything from the inside… It was amazing.”
My idea of going back there
Experience in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia: “There are still a lot of things that need to be improved. They were betting heavily on football a few years ago. It will grow little by little or very quickly, I don’t know, but I’ve seen the evolution. I can’t crack here on the radio. There are very positive things and there are few others that would be nice to talk about. It’s not something that can be improved, it’s something more subtle.”
Relationship with the press: “I rarely saw journalists or a newspaper defending my interests. All the decisions I made were questioned, and whenever I did spoken interviews and then wrote, I had good disappointments because the headlines that are taken out are the ones I most want to see. It’s your job and you have to talk. That’s what I saw from the inside. It has never happened to me at a press conference, strange things do not appear in the headlines.”
Stay in Arabic: “I have already commented on it more than once. My idea of going back there. I have all my family in Europe to stay in the Arabian Peninsula or to return: “my idea is to return there”.
Return to play in Spain: “The posts are already… Clearly.”
The stage at Manchester City: It’s a team that we won a lot, but for me the European Championship was even more special because of the important championship that I got in the competition, because of the group, what we achieve at the national team level, great and exceptional teammates. I have rarely come across such a group. If I stay, I’ll keep this. But it is true that five premierships in six years is amazing.”
We have a team to win the World Cup
Homework to do: “We have achieved what we wanted, which is qualification. We are representing Spain and we must not relax in any match. We must make the most of ourselves and respect the people who will come to support us. We don’t like to lose and we will try to win both games.”
Able to win the world: “In recent years we have shown that we can compete perfectly to win the World Cup. Things can go right or wrong, as we know in football nowadays inferior teams can beat superior teams. We are going to try and we have the necessary equipment for that. Our ambition and goal is to get there. One thousand percent.”
Demonstrates the uncertainty of the semi-automatic game: “I didn’t see him, but with the explanation given by Klose Gomez, he convinced me at that moment.”
