Alvaro Morata's disarming mea culpa

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By: Manu Tournoux

Alvaro Morata's career is not a long, quiet river. Hope of Real Madrid frustrated with a lack of playing time, revelation in Italy but ultimately never master in his country, he made permanent round trips between Real, Juventus, and Atlético de Madrid, with a passage to Chelsea. Always with a mixed impression, that of a real fighter on the meadow but with too random efficiency to make it a world class attacker.

This did not prevent him from being the captain of La Roja during the last victorious Euro, but again, everything was not pink, far from it. Critics have been abundant, both on its level of play and on its moods. Indeed, at the heart of the European tournament, he had let his spleen filter, explaining that he felt happier elsewhere than in his country. He had therefore decided to give in to the call of AC Milan, very quickly after the Euro, convinced that the atmosphere around his person would only get worse.

But now, nothing happened as planned among the Rossoneri, authors of a mediocre season, and Morata again took off, with a loan in Turkey on the side of Galatasaray. If he says he is happy in his new club, where he scored 2 goals in 5 appearances, he clearly regrets his choice of having left Atlético last summer, as he explained, with a disarming frankness, at the microphone ofEl Larguero last night.

Morata's regrets

“This summer, I should have thought more. Needless to say now, but I should have wondered whether or not I had to leave Atlético. When you don't feel well at certain levels of your life, you make bad decisions. Not just in football, it happens in all aspects of life. (…) If I had been able to go back, I would not have made the decision to leave Atlético. Now, arriving here, I realize that I did not know how to see reality in the face. We were just European champions, at Atlético, there were more and more people who loved me and who managed to understand me, but hey, these are decisions that we make in his career “he said, explaining why he had chosen to join Milan.

“This subject concerned me, I thought about it during the euro. AC Milan coach-Fonseca at the time-called me every day and, at that time, I needed to feel loved. With hindsight, Cholo also appreciated and loved me ”he continued. Sensitive, Morata followed his feelings of the moment, last July, and that did not bear fruit. “If someone had told me that I made a mistake?” My father was the first “he slipped. The Milanese adventure quickly took a bad turn. “Suddenly, things were complicated. When you start to have the problem, I prefer to leave. I was lucky that I was offered a family experience in the biggest club in Türkiye and I decided to go. It is not final, I have a contract until next January, which is a little strange, even if it would not bother me to stay there. I am happy, I adapted myself well, but I have a contract with AC Milan ”. And given his passive, we can expect everything with Alvaro Morata!