Bayer Leverkusen midfielder Aleix Garcia has confirmed curiosity in returning to La Liga sooner or later, having been the topic of summer time switch curiosity from Barcelona.
Garcia performed a vital position in Girona’s fairytale qualification for the Champions League final season and, in June, made the swap to Germany for round €18m (£15m). Within the months previous that transfer, the Catalan native had been closely linked with Barcelona as a substitute.
Barca have been quick in midfield at occasions this season however lacked the monetary capability to tug off a number of summer time offers, negotiating a cost construction for Dani Olmo however struggling to register his contract with La Liga till Ilkay Gundogan had been sacrificed.
Garcia has had a circuitous path to the highest, on the books at Manchester Metropolis for 5 years however enduring a disappointing spell in Romania earlier than discovering his toes at Girona in his mid-twenties.
Now 27, the Spain worldwide hasn’t been an prompt success at Leverkusen, beginning solely six of the membership’s 20 video games throughout all competitions, although he hopes coach Xabi Alonso is seeing extra of him.
“I’ve been fortunate sufficient to attain two targets within the final month and that provides me confidence and vanity. Xabi is beginning to see various things in me to what the opposite midfielders within the workforce can contribute and we’re discovering the answer in order that I can convey out my greatest qualities,” Garcia instructed Mundo Deportivo.
“There are occasions when I’m annoyed to not have the continuity that everybody likes, however I additionally settle for it as a result of I’ve arrived at a workforce the place there may be a number of high quality and it’s a course of. I really feel higher each time and Xabi can see it.
“It is troublesome to reply [about medium and long-term ambitions],” he added. “Soccer modifications from in the future to the subsequent. Proper now, I am very pleased in Leverkusen and I’ve a five-year contract. I see myself returning to La Liga sooner or later. I might like to return, however I do not know when. Proper now, I need to take pleasure in this expertise and we’ll see what the longer term holds.
“Sure, there was a number of discuss [about Barcelona]. If it did not occur it was as a result of they weren’t 100% satisfied or I do not know what occurred. Sure, there have been calls. It is good that folks from Barça referred to as my agent, but when it did not occur it was as a result of it should not have occurred and I am proud of the step I took.”
