This week has seen some rather crazy claims from Spain about Ayoze Perez moving to Real Betis.
They started off like many rumours, but within a couple of days, Spain’s Gol Digital were describing the transfer as ‘imminent’, treating it as a done deal, and working out which players Betis would sell to make room for the Newcastle United forward.
It felt like complete nonsense. Betis are looking for bargain players and there’s no obvious reason why Newcastle would play along with that.
The Premier League club are also able to pay higher wages than Betis, should they so please, so it didn’t make sense in that regard either, and Newcastle are hardly likely to fall out with Rafael Benitez over Perez.
The man himself has been speaking to Spanish newspaper AS, and their excellent UK based journalist Eduardo Fdez-Abascal, and whilst the interview is mainly about Arsenal, from an Atletico Madrid Europa League perspective, Perez was asked if he’s tempted to return to Spain.
“Always tempted. It’s my country and I never had the opportunity to play in the Primera. It pulls me back but the Premier League has me in love. I’m happy here.”
So that’s a little bit yes and a little bit no, but it doesn’t sound like Newcastle United have anything to worry about in the immediate future.
