Martín Zubimendi has claimed his future stays open regardless of sturdy hyperlinks to Arsenal, and admits new Actual Madrid boss Xabi Alonso is his “idol.”
Arsenal have been engaged on a deal for the Actual Sociedad and Spain midfielder for various months and sources have informed ESPN {that a} deal is shut, pending a medical.
Zubimendi, nonetheless, has insisted he doesn’t know the way the summer season switch window will play out. Arsenal, Madrid and Liverpool — who the 26-year-old turned down final summer season — are all choices, whereas a keep at Sociedad can also be on the desk.
“Of course there are options, but it’s true that it looks like it’s going to be a different, long summer, and I don’t know how it’s going to end,” Zubimendi informed Radio Nacional from the Spain nationwide group’s camp.
“Right now, thinking about it isn’t my priority. I’m here with the national team, which is already quite demanding, and if I have to say something, then I will.”
Final week, Zubimendi posted images from his Instagram account exhibiting him at a seashore in San Sebastian, after stories that he was in the UK for an Arsenal medical.
He defined: “It’s an instance of what surrounds the world of soccer. Typically I get up and skim issues I didn’t know I’d executed, and that was an instance.
“It’s true that I don’t take it too seriously, but with those photos I wanted to emphasise that that wasn’t the reality of what was happening.”
Whereas Zubimendi, who has spent his complete profession at Sociedad, categorises a transfer to Madrid as one other “hypothesis,” he has stated Alonso is certainly one of his idols.
“I’ve always said that he was my idol and that for me it was a stroke of luck that he was able to coach me in the reserve team in a very important year,” Zubimendi added.
“[But] I don’t like to talk about those hypotheses, I like to talk about the present. I think it would be disrespectful to answer a question [about a Madrid move] while I’m in the national team, and facing such an important competition.”
Spain play France in a Nations League semifinal on Thursday.
