After nine o'clock on Sunday night, while all the Alavesismo lamented over
Oblak's
stop
before
Joselu's
penalty
that prevented the Vitorian team from adding a gold point in the
Wanda Metropolitano
, the bomb exploded.
Lucas Pérez
, perhaps the most talented footballer on the
Alavés
squad
, hadn't even traveled to
Madrid
.
The question to
Abelardo
, logically, was obligatory.
Another coach might have thrown balls out or resorted to vague euphemism.
But the Asturian is not a technician who bites his tongue, quite the contrary.
"At Alavés my idea is courage, courage, commitment and giving everything for this club.
Those who do not want to give it, obviously do not deserve to join this team,
" said Abelardo, clarifying that he was not going to talk more about a problem that it had already appeared weeks before, but that it had remained in a certain way buried.
Not anymore.
There are 10 league games left and it doesn't look like Lucas Pérez is going to re-enter his plans.
The footballer has not opened his mouth since then, although his closest environment has been through a kind of statement: "
At no time has he disrespected or disrespected the club
. In his professional career, and representing various entities, he has never He has been able to dismiss him as a lack of commitment. Given the lack of minutes in the last two months, it must be made clear that Lucas has always been and will be fully available to the coach to contribute the maximum so that Deportivo Alavés can achieve the goal of the permanence".
Already in his second game under the command of Alavés in this second stage, the absence of the Galician forward surprised, given his weight in the offensive game of the Basque team.
"
I had a private conversation with him
. I need the players to be one hundred percent with the team and I thought he was not," said the coach for days later to sign peace and summon him for the game with Real Madrid, in which he played the entire second half: "Now I think he is in that position and has many options to enter the call."
Controversial WhatsApp audios
Since then, Lucas had been playing fairly regularly.
It is true that he was no longer the undisputed starter that he had been during his first year and a half in Vitoria, but neither had his performance been the same: he
has scored four goals this season
, three of them from penalties, the last on New Year's Eve.
In the background, the rumors about the Galician forward's wishes to leave Alavés in search of another destination, present in both the summer and winter markets and despite the fact that he still has one more year on his contract at
Mendizorroza
, and his alleged refusal to cut his salary last season.
All this adds to another controversy that is permeating Alavés.
For a few weeks,
several audios of unknown authorship have been
circulating on
in which
serious conflicts of a personal nature are narrated
between various members of the Albiazul wardrobe, including Lucas.
The massive dissemination of these files, despite the fact that nothing suggests that their content is true, ended up polluting the environment around Alavés, to the point that the club decided last Thursday to issue an official statement on the matter.
In said publication, the club dismissed
these rumors
as "
absolutely interested, unfounded and false information
", acknowledged the "commitment and involvement" of players and coaches in achieving permanence and announced "legal actions against information that is considered injurious, libelous and / or that affect the honorability of its players and members, or that exceed the reasonable and healthy criticism to which professionals are logically exposed ".
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