Getafe is hopeful that Carles Aleñá will also be active at the club next season. Los Azulónes have been hiring the 23-year-old midfielder from Barcelona since January and are so satisfied with his performance that a purchase agreement in the summer is one of the options. “If Barcelona wants to sell him, we are interested in getting him”, club president Ángel Torres said. Sport.
Aleñá was known as a great talent at Barcelona for years, but never managed to break through completely. The midfielder experienced an extremely difficult first half of the season under Ronald Koeman, in which he only made two raids in LaLiga. The Barcelona coach granted permission for a rental period at Getafe in January, where Aleñá immediately fought his way into the base and did not miss a match. After fifteen league matches, the Spaniard is on one goal and two assists for the number fifteen of LaLiga.
“We are very happy with his performance,” said Torres, Getafe’s president. “If Barça isn’t going to use him next season and want to sell him, we’ll try to keep him with us. He’s happy here, but he’s a Barcelona player and they’ll have to decide if they want him back. We’ll see what our There are possibilities to buy him, but we must first focus on the fight against relegation, because if we are relegated from LaLiga, then we have no chance anyway. ” Seven games before the end, Getafe is four points above the relegation line.
Aleñá’s contract with Barcelona expires in mid-2022 and it seems likely that the Catalans will want to sell their youth product in the summer transfer window, in order to secure a transfer fee. During the first half of the season, there was much written in Spanish media about the alleged troubled relationship between Aleñá and Koeman, although the former denied that this was the case with his temporary departure to Getafe.
“I don’t think he (Koeman, ed.) Has abandoned me,” Aleñá told in January in conversation with Marca. “In the end he opted for other players in midfield. Then you have to be sensible if you find that you are not eligible for playing minutes. I could have stayed calm, but I had not played for a long time and it was difficult to get that. Maybe he didn’t appreciate that. “