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Jhon Durán will ever return?

On Friday afternoon he saw the official announcement of the last coup d’etat, Saudi Arabia has hit the traditional football establishment. Jhon Durán, the impossible support striker of Aston Villa, addresses the Saudi Pro League al-Nassr club, who acquired the Colombian services for a reported transfer rate of 77 million euros. The measure is only the last escalation of a continuous trend that has seen dozens of legitimately high level talents avoiding the major leagues of Europe in favor of large dollars of Saudi Arabia. Like all those other movements, this sucks the ass.

The word “unprecedented” has already been attached to several transfers prior to the SPL, but must trot once again to describe the movement of Durán. This is very similar to the transfer of Gabri Veiga, only much, much more significant. Veiga was (and I suppose it is still a young perspective with a genuine potential to reach the elite elite, but it was not yet of great interest for the best clubs as more than a steering wheel. Durán, on the contrary, already He has made the languages ​​of the greats move And Chelsea were close to signing it last summer, and his star has only increased since then. A matter of even bigger clubs, the tastes of Chelsea, Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona according to the reports, all have been monitored closely; This moment next year, Durán would have been the face of Aston Villa’s attack or the new signature of one of the Perennial contestants in Europe. Maybe Veiga could have reached where Durán is now, right at the door of the football elite. And yet, Durán, as Veiga, turned.

I think I said enough the last time about what the Saudi incursion on the widest structure of football says, so I will not submit you to a repetition of that here. The only thing I will write down is that, while the burst of high -profile signings has certainly cooled since these first couples transfer windows, at this point it seems that the Saudi are committed to the bit. Anyone who thinks that this could be another short -lived phenomenon such as the Chinese Super League should probably already be thinking otherwise.

Instead of an enlarged look at the state of the game, let’s focus on the player himself. Durán is So good. I really believe that the only thing between him and the acclaimed generalized as one of the best strikers in the world is to play time. Like any player, he, of course, has things he could improve, and like any young player, his game, of course, he has aspects that need to iron so that he reaches its maximum potential. But with him it is less about projecting whether or not he will develop the necessary skills to become an elite player and more a simple issue of him revealing that it is already.

That is part of what is so depressing that Durán goes to Saudi Arabia. Few things in sports are more rewarding than witnessing a young talent that you are sure will soon explode. Durán’s explosion seemed practically inevitable, as well as the probability that the resulting fireworks regularly dazzle the sky of London or Manchester or Barcelona or even Paris, depending on which of the great clubs broke it, giving most of the world of football a literal or metaphorical or metaphorical front row for the show. His talent is already so immense that I still believe that Dur will explode (the worst environments have shown to light the fuses of great players, and cannot be denied at this point that the SPL is a serious and challenging league), but it is a damn pity that Most of us do not see how we would have it otherwise.

And it is that inevitability of Durán’s talent that raises the part that really worries me. Can we really see Durán at his best moment? As Westerners of the middle class, it would be presumptuous from us to offer any hard criticism of Durán, which grew in a lower class neighborhood in Medellín, for accepting a contract that will probably keep several generations of his family safe from Financial de Financial. Precarity In addition, because his talent is so great and his career as young, it is not like this 5.5 -year contract necessarily means that he has consigned the totality of his professional future to Saudi Arabia. As optimists always point out in situations like this, there is nothing that prevents Durán That really matters, and shining intensely once again. And surely it will be there at least with the National Team of Colombia, enjoying Cups América and World Cups at least part of the attention that is now renouncing at club level. It is not the future that most fans would prefer, but it is better.

But how realistic is that will really return to us? There is no direct precedent here to look for guidance, but there are some similar situations, and the image they paint is not terribly optimistic. What Qatar has done with PSG is a bit similar to what Saudi Arabia is doing with the SPL, and we have seen how uncompromising the PSG has been when it comes to the possibility of freeing one of the great players of his golden cage. If Durán plays as well as you imagine, is there any number in which Al-Noser would feel obliged to sell it to a club not supported by a background of unlimited sovereign wealth? If Durán tries to go out, is there any reason to believe that Al-nassr would have to give in? If you require that Durán stays without the entire contract and leave for free, can you not find a number that Al-Nassr, one completely out of the limits of what the football business itself could support, to convince it What do you stay? ? Basically, all that is what happened with Kylian Mbappé and PSG, and I think there are reasons to believe that the possible escape of Saudi Arabia would be even more difficult than that of Mbappé de France.

I mentioned earlier that the SPL already seems like a greater threat to the status quo of football than the Chinese league during those brief pairs of pairs when I was also spending crazy money, but the fate of a player in China has worried me more about Durán’s. The Brazilian midfielder Oscar of the midfielder was a great beginning in his European career in December 2016, when the Shanghai Sipg CSL Club (now known as Shanghai Port) surprised the world by signing 25 years of Chelsea de Chelsea for £ 60 million, At that time a surprising rate. For four and a half years, Oscar had been a regular Chelsea, perhaps not always a safe starter, but always a key resource in the list. The idea that he would leave one of the world’s biggest teams, right in the middle of his best, to go to play in Porcelain Absolutely mendid belief. However, it was difficult to blame for Europe for the promise of a contract that changes the life of multigenerational dimension, and thought was that it was still young enough, and already showed that the major leagues of Europe always be waiting for it if and when I wanted go back.

Unless, like me, you were so captivated by the sad strangeness of Oscar’s move that you have tried to monitor him, you probably have not heard the name of the Brazilian much during the eight intermediate years. Oscar was as good as Shanghai could have waited, being easily the best player in the league, scoring and helping 142 goals in 175 games. Every two years his name appeared in the European rumors factory, some passes mentioned that he could be ready to return to the stage he had left and that a large club was potentially interested, but nothing stronger materialized. Three years after his original four -year contract, the player and the club signed a lucrative extension that was to keep him in China until December 2024. Last month, the 33 -year -old midfielder finally left Shanghai, citing his desire to be more Nearby for the family after so long, and announced that he would join São Paulo, the club he had left as a 19 -year -old boy when, with a dream of glory and a better future, he signed with Chelsea.

It is difficult not to see in Oscar’s past a potential vision of Durán’s future. And it’s not just Durán. To name only a few players with the highest roofs, Veiga, Moussa Diaby and Ezequiel Fernández also have the potential to reach the top, but now they have a doubtful path to get there.

Soccer is a collective sport, not only in the obvious sense that it is played by two teams of 11 teammates, but also in how it is only possible through collective processes: fans who care about it, the Societies that cultivate it, the cultures that mark it, the social bases that create and maintain clubs in whose name are played, players who from childhood to the professional level accompany and collaborate and challenge and challenge and encourage and improve the small percentage of players We look on television every weekend along their long trips to the top, that produces it. It is in this sense that football or any other sport, any other cultural practice or institution, for the case, belonging For us, a sense of property at least equal to the players and coaches who participate in it and certainly more than the vultures that benefit from it. It is shit that we will not enjoy one of the most succulent fruits of this collective work, since Durán has been captured by forces that really only covet him as a trophy for his own vanity. But well, maybe I return. We hope at least.

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