Isco's future at Sevilla: "You're fine, you're strong"

• Football the surprise signing of Sevilla

"Do you believe in magic?"

they sang 'The Lovin Spoonful'.

"Do you believe in magic?"

seems to ask Sevilla fans.

All great teams need a truce with reality.

Make the impossible possible.

May the goals also be happy fruits.

's Sevilla

is a strict and prudent team.

With more camo fabric than sequins.

, 'Isco' (Benalmádena, Málaga; 1992) arrives to free a chained group.

The season hasn't started yet, and part of the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán stands have already whistled for their players.

trophy

, played against Cádiz, in the last preparatory match of the summer.

The team is shown with doubts and disconcerting planning.

Although it is too soon to draw conclusions, the departure of the starting central defenders,

and

, worries the parish.

Lopetegui's reinforcement

Sevilla last year was a team built from the back to the front.

This season is still a mystery.

The midfielder from Malaga fills a position that seemed covered by

,

,

and

.

In Lopetegui's 4-2-3-1 there is room for the unthinkable.

A plot that gives meaning to the game, that turns groping into puya, that blows up a group with a tendency to self-absorption and horizontality.

The Nervionense midfielder, who has inhabited Papu above all with chiaroscuro, could give more of herself.

In the last year the strikers suffered, castaways, and the wingers seemed to wage war on their own.

comes to harmonize everything.

Another thing is to see how Isco is, because with the numbers in hand, he comes from being an inconsequential player.

Sevilla has signed a souvenir.

Alarcón played just 400 minutes in his last season at Real Madrid and about a thousand in the previous one.

Despite his thirty years, he is a player in clear decline.

The start of his career was spectacular.

He shone at Valencia and made history at Malaga.

In the nine seasons at Real Madrid, he won five

Leagues , three

and one

.

But his halo faded while criticism grew in parallel for his disconnection and apathy on the field.

His talent was no longer enough to keep him in the eleven, from which he quietly left.

With episodes of indiscipline and visible physical abandonment, his departure from Real Madrid was determined.

Sevilla had been behind him for months, but his salary made it impossible to sign him.

Finally, the footballer arrives free and having greatly lowered his economic claims.

The man from Malaga wants to continue competing in a league that he knows, with the opportunity to step into the Champions League and in a system that suits his game.

magic and precision

Lopetegui has already directed Isco twice.

In Madrid, for just a handful of games, and especially in the Spanish team, where he was essential at the helm of the Spain that qualified with stripes for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

It was a brief idyll, but it cements the hope that the former madridista can relive, with the red-and-white from Nervion, his best times as a footballer.

Although Sevilla has experience in redemptions, such as

,

or

;

He also has some background in frustrated healing, from

to

, to give two close examples.

Isco has been an express request of the coach and he assumes part of the responsibility and the dynamics of integration in a settled and demanding group.

The profile is clear: Magic in the core.

Unpredictability.

Precision.

Get to the net earlier.

Take advantage of the offensive versatility, from the physique of

to the speed of

, from the power of Ocampos to the fineness of

, the watermarks of

, the addition of the second line with

... that attacking does not become in an ordeal, like last season, but a clear consequence of possession and control of the ball, Lopetegui's great achievements with the Andalusian club.

"You're fine, you're strong...", Monchi told Isco upon his arrival in Seville.

"I've taken care of myself, I've taken care of myself," replied the man from Malaga with a smile.

It is a beginning.

There are many hours of training and faith in an idea.

Waiting for Sevilla to shore up their defense, Lopetegui has, at least, the illusion of getting an attack with more emotion, with more light, with more magic.

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