Carles Gil’s situation is getting more compicated than Carles Gil’s situation really should be.
It had all looked like coming to a clean conclusion, with the Seville media reporting Gil has an ‘agreement in principle’ to sign for Betis and the verdiblanco would agree a permanent deal with Aston Villa.
Then Deportivo, where Gil has spent the past season on loan from Aston Villa, wrestled back into the story, with it being reported that Pepe Mel telephones the player ‘almost daily’ to convince him to return to Depor on loan.
Even that didn’t scare the Seville press too much, with Betis still considered favourites for the Aston Villa midfielder.
But La Voz de Galicia have it differently. Very differently indeed.
Being in Galicia, La Voz are very much on Depor’s side, and kick their article off by saying: ‘There are negotiations in which all the pieces fit, when the interest of the selling club and the buying club coincide as if from the first minute they had been talking all their lives.’
It’s not like that for Depor with Gil and Villa.
La Voz say Villa are refusing to talk to Depor about a deal, because they don’t believe the Galician club are serious about getting anywhere near the €4m asking price.
Aston Villa have ‘closed the door’ on a transfer, but La Voz think it’s just a matter of time before things turn Depor’s way. Because, well, because, erm, they don’t really give a good reason for that.
As for Betis, their interest is mentioned but brushed aside as if it doesn’t exist.
This is all either a good line in propaganda from La Voz de Galicia, or it’s all turning into an absolute mess.
