Marc Roca’s potential long-term stay at Real Betis is fully dependent on whether Leeds United can make it back to the Premier League this season.
That’s according to Estadio Deportivo, who say the ‘perfect scenario’ for the player is that his club do not secure promotion from the Championship at the first time of asking.
They explain that Roca is one of the footballers that Real Betis are ‘most aware’ of for next season, with him currently performing at a high level in Manuel Pellegrini’s team after arriving on loan from Leeds in the summer.
The Spanish side want to buy him permanently despite their financial problems at this moment in time and Roca wants to stay, but it all depends on Betis having the financial capacity to do a deal.
They have a purchase option in the loan from Leeds but might not have the money to activate it and so the ‘perfect scenario’ would be for Leeds to miss out on promotion.
That’s because it would mean Roca would be available on loan again in the summer, with the player having revealed he can depart Elland Road on loan again if promotion is not secured.
“There is a clause like this year. If Leeds is not in the Premier League, I can go out on loan again,” Estadio report him saying to El Desmarque.
“Let’s see. It depends on whether they go up or not. They are things out of my control. I sincerely hope they go up, because of all the teams I wish them the best. I am grateful to them, I wish them the best, it has been my home, and from there we will see.”
Leeds currently sit fourth in the Championship and five points behind second placed Ipswich so there is everything left to play for and thus Roca’s future is yet to be resolved.
Betis want him, he wants the move permanently and ‘everything is in the hands of the representatives’, who are presumably waiting to see how Leeds’ season pans out before making any definitive moves.
