Martín Zubimendi has claimed his future stays open regardless of sturdy hyperlinks to Arsenal, and admits new Real Madrid boss Xabi Alonso is his “idol.”
Arsenal have been engaged on a deal for the Real Sociedad and Spain midfielder for a variety of months and sources have told ESPN {that a} deal is shut, pending a medical.
Zubimendi, nevertheless, has insisted he does not know the way the summer time switch window will play out. Arsenal, Madrid and Liverpool — who the 26-year-old turned down final summer time — are all choices, whereas a keep at Sociedad can also be on the desk.
“In fact there are alternatives, nevertheless it’s true that it appears to be like like it’ll be a special, lengthy summer time, and I do not know the way it’ll finish,” Zubimendi instructed Radio Nacional from the Spain nationwide crew’s camp.
“Proper now, excited about it is not my precedence. I am right here with the nationwide crew, which is already fairly demanding, and if I’ve to say one thing, then I’ll.”
Final week, Zubimendi posted images from his Instagram account displaying him at a seaside in San Sebastian, after reviews that he was in the UK for an Arsenal medical.
He defined: “It is an instance of what surrounds the world of soccer. Typically I get up and skim issues I did not know I might finished, and that was an instance.
“It is true that I do not take it too significantly, however with these images I needed to stress that that wasn’t the fact of what was taking place.”
Whereas Zubimendi, who has spent his entire profession at Sociedad, categorises a transfer to Madrid as one other “speculation,” he has stated Alonso is one among his idols.
“I’ve all the time stated that he was my idol and that for me it was a stroke of luck that he was in a position to coach me within the reserve crew in a vital 12 months,” Zubimendi added.
“[But] I do not like to speak about these hypotheses, I like to speak in regards to the current. I believe it will be disrespectful to reply a query [about a Madrid move] whereas I am within the nationwide crew, and going through such an essential competitors.”
Spain play France in a Nations League semifinal on Thursday.
