Martin Odegaard remains firm in his desire to leave Real Madrid. The Norwegian footballer does not understand his situation in the white team and that is why he has asked the club to release him and let him enjoy minutes with another team, preferably at Real Sociedad. The midfielder feels cheated because he considers that nothing that he was told in the summer is being fulfilled. Odegaard had the option of staying one more year at the Royal Society and that was his wish.
The Norwegian did not want to return to Madrid,
Aware that it was very difficult to overthrow the old guard with Zidane as a coach. The Norwegian, his father, and his representative insisted that continuing in San Sebastián under Imanol was possibly the best thing for his career, but in Madrid, they promised him minutes and gallons. And Odegaard, with a current contract, agreed to return.
Odegaard’s injuries and problems during the preseason are knee problems that forced him to do an individual preseason in the Sierra Nevada during his holidays to arrive in Madrid as a motorcycle. He did not reach one hundred percent, but Zidane bet on him in the first games, giving him the title against Real Sociedad and Betis.
The first two days. Madrid did not work well, neither did Odegaard, and little by little ZZ began to look at his usual 4-3-3 and bet on Modric. Injuries one in October that forced him to miss three games and another in December did not play in his favor, but Zidane definitely turned his back on him since the defeat against Shakhtar on December 1, the date of his fourth and last ownership. Since then it has only added five minutes of play. Five minutes in six games !!! The rest of the time, bench and without heating.
What happened in Malaga during the Spanish Super Cup?
Odegaard returned from Malaga very angry after not playing for a minute increasing his desire to force his exit. Losing Madrid to Athletic the Norwegian didn’t even warm-up and after the game, he stayed on training alone. All very strange after a conversation with Zidane two days before the game in which the Frenchman would have assured him that he would have opportunities and in which the player exposed his discomfort. But was it in that talk when the player asked him to leave Madrid? Because although ZZ asked him to calm down, the reality is that the technician continued to put him aside.
Odegaard did not play for a minute against Athletic and, what is most striking, was not part of Zidane’s tests for the duel against Alcoyano. The Frenchman began to project a team against Alcoyano on Monday without the Norwegian in the eleven. which suggests that Odegaard had already exploded and had asked for his departure.
As learned, his discomfort was great before the Super Cup and it is even more so since that duel against Athletic in which he did not play for a minute. Now Madrid has a bomb to defuse because there is no simple solution. Letting out a player of his stature in the winter market is seriously weakening the team in midfield, even though ZZ is not using him. And on the other hand, the coexistence between Zidane and Odegaard is not being simple.
