It’s tough supporting a Latin American club.
When your think you have a great squad, players start being sold to random European sides, and the team needs to be built again every two or three years. Sometimes youngsters move at the age of 18 and you didn’t even get a chance to cheer for them.
But players have another point of view, and that’s what Wolves’ Raul Jimenez has shown this week. In an interview with the Mexican media, he’s claimed that local sides should actually make it easier for starlets to have a chance to move to European football.
“There are youngsters who are in a great form now, there are two at America who came out champions and I see them very well, they can do well in Europe,” Jimenez told Fox Sports.
“I can simply say do not clip their wings, let them fly so they can see the radical change, both in football as in life, so that they adapt as quickly as possible, do not waste time and they can spend as many years in Europe.”
“UNO CUANDO ESTÁ EN MÉXICO DICE ‘YA ESTOY PREPARADO’, PERO LLEGAS ACÁ Y DICES ‘CREO QUE TODAVÍA ME FALTABA UN POCO'”#FSRadioMX Así habló Raúl Jiménez sobre las diferencias que ha encontrado entre el nivel y la preparación del futbolista europeo, y lo que ocurre en México pic.twitter.com/WY2xbORe5b
— FOX Sports MX (@FOXSportsMX) December 19, 2018
“When someone’s in Mexico he says ‘I’m ready’, but you get here and say ‘I think I lacked a bit’, but if you don’t dare to take that leap from a young age, then you arrive and maybe you arrived too late.
“Many times they are the same teams that ask for incredible amounts to sell, when there are many Argentines or Brazilians in European football, it’s because they sell them at affordable prices, in Mexico prices are often very high.”
Jimenez should just be aware that Brazilian and Argentine sides sell for little because they need money, not because they want to see players shining in some other league. So fair play to Mexican sides who work to keep their players and make the fans happy.
