Sevilla manager Quique Sanchez Flores’ treatment of Tottenham youngster Alejo Veliz has been criticised, with the striker having ‘lost half a year’.
Diario de Sevilla cover Veliz’s unsuccessful loan spell at Sevilla this season and how it’s all because of Sanchez Flores.
The newspaper explains that the manager, who is set to depart this summer, used the Tottenham loanee to help send a message to those above him.
He and fellow loanee Hannibal Mejbri only managed 130 minutes of football between them after arriving in the January transfer window.
Veliz’s latest minutes came in the final game of the season, when he was afforded an appearance from the bench in the dying minutes of the win over Granada.
They explain that Sanchez Flores took his tendency to make strange substitutions a little further with his introduction of the Tottenham loanee just as the referee was preparing to blow the whistle, seemingly only remembering him and Hannibal once they had mathematically avoided relegation.
He has ‘systematically ignored’ both players in the last few months, using the Tottenham man in particular as a way in which to bite back at the club’s sporting management, who he’s long been in disagreement with.
Veliz has only managed a total of 30 minutes and the decision to bring him on late against Granada was not well received by Sevilla’s fans.
The young striker has essentially ‘lost half a year’ and found himself the victim of odd decisions from Sanchez Flores amid his attempts to win the battle with Sevilla’s management.
