Manchester City youngster Maxi Perrone is yet to impress on loan at Spanish club Las Palmas, playing just a ‘testimonial role’ at best.
That’s according to AS, who say the surprise deal at the end of the transfer window is yet to work out for any of the relevant parties.
The Argentine joined Las Palmas on loan for the season in the hope of getting regular playing time and developing his game away from the Etihad, where playing time wasn’t on offer.
He arrived in Gran Canaria ‘looking for the role he had lost in England’ where he has barely featured since signing for Manchester City eight months ago.
The belief was that Las Palmas’ style of play ‘suited him like a glove’ as they play a style similar to that of Guardiola’s, based on Barcelona of old, looking to ‘dominate the game through possession’.
They were delighted to get such a player, particularly as he’d once been linked to Real Madrid, but that’s quickly dissipating as there have ‘hardly been any glimpses’ of the Argentine since his arrival.
At the moment Perrone is playing a ‘testimonial’ role at best, even in the last few games when Jonathan Vieira has been left on the bench.
The midfielder has only been able to show ‘flashes’ of what he can offer, and the ‘bench awaits him’ again after the international break when Las Palmas take on Rayo Vallecano.
He’ll be a ‘luxury substitute’ and has to keep working to get himself into the picture, with his loan deal yet to work out how he or Manchester City would have planned.
