• Injury: Brahim's torture

From the dashboard of Real Madrid , a phrase is repeated this summer, between the joke and the surprise: «Nobody wants to leave here!» . Only Marcos Llorente asked for the bill, with the condition of being transferred to Atlético. Just so. It was that or risk the stands, something he didn't care about. Gareth Bale instructed his agent not to move him through the market, James Rodriguez has told his that he would be happy to continue living in the capital, Isco , a recent father, has no intention of moving and of Keylor's resistance Navas could make a movie. But perhaps the case that is attracting more attention to the white club is that of Mariano Díaz , the player with more faith in himself of the squad and with less options to find minutes in the season.

Both the club and its environment confirm the position of the striker of Dominican origin, rejecting so far the proposals that have come from other teams, some important shields. In his thirteen, he has given pumpkins to Monaco, Milan or Rome , all willing to assume his salary and give prominence. There are still days of market (closes on September 2), but its agents begin to give up given the insistence of the player to continue in Valdebebas, at least until Christmas.

"If Mr. Mys gives me the chance, I win the Golden Boot," he said, displaying his enormous self-esteem. He is not intimidated by either the competition or the limited focus that Zinedine Zidane has given him. With the Frenchman, he has only participated in 19 official matches since 2016. And in the last preseason he only appeared in the second part of the friendly against Fenerbahce ... with time to score a goal and load himself with reasons for his risky bet.

In addition, Mariano reinforces himself by reading support messages from Madrid fans on social networks. He looks around and looks with possibilities, despite the amount of alternatives that Zidane handles, among newly arrived names, such as Luka Jovic , his most direct rival, or classics who also resist leaving Madrid.

Threatened with the harrow

He is motivated by the cases of James and Bale, a couple of discarded like him during most of the preseason. Both went from the stands to be summoned to Vigo, with ownership even for the Welshman in the league debut. Just that awaits the ram from the Olympique de Lyon, a while to try to seduce the boss. He fully believes that he would achieve it, as they insist around him.

In his favor, the good legs he is wearing in summer, without suffering the physical discomforts that weighed down so much in the previous preseason. After a powerful campaign in the French league (21 points in 45 games), Julen Lopetegui claimed him a year ago intuiting the scoring problems that his team was going to suffer without Cristiano Ronaldo. Real Madrid came forward at the last moment to Seville taking advantage of the repesca clause that had gotten into Mariano's contract when he signed his sale to Lyon. However, the striker linked injury after injury, always with muscle discomfort.

While the whites languished in the season, dry offensively, the canterano spent almost the entire course in the infirmary. In a desperate attempt to fix his situation, he got to bring to Madrid the same mattress where he had slept in France, waiting to find the rest and success he had had there. Stubborn, introverted boy, loyal to his longtime friends, he is still determined to succeed in the team of his life and show Zidane that he has an untapped treasure.

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