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The Spanish midfielder is set to kick on after being handed a uncommon begin within the Champions League in opposition to Dynamo Kiev
Carles Alena has expressed his need to stay at Camp Nou amid hyperlinks with Real Betis, insisting he would keep at Barcelona for all times if it was as much as him.
Alena has appeared in 41 senior matches for Barca since graduating to the senior squad in 2016.
The Spanish playmaker has struggled to earn an everyday place within the Blaugrana’s beginning line-up, and was despatched out on mortgage to Betis for the second half of the 2019-20 season.
He impressed throughout his six-month stint at Benito Villamarín Stadium, however returned to Camp Nou in August and has since set about forcing his method into Ronald Koeman’s plans.
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Nonetheless, Alena has but to characteristic for Barca in La Liga this time period, and is already being linked with a everlasting transfer to Betis within the January window.
The 22-year-old was an unused substitute as Koeman’s males fell to a 1-Zero defeat in opposition to Atletico Madrid at Wanda Metropolitano final weekend, however was handed a uncommon begin within the Champions League on Tuesday evening.
The previous Spain U-21 worldwide starred during a 4-0 win over Dynamo Kiev in Ukraine , and pledged to proceed combating for his place whereas rejecting the notion of an impending transfer away from Catalonia.
“My thought is to stay right here,” Alena informed reporters when quizzed on his future. “I really feel bodily properly. I need to keep, if it was right down to me, I’d keep right here all my life.
“The one path is to work and push laborious in coaching. I regularly really feel higher.”
The midfielder added on the excessive requirements he should dwell as much as to be able to show he belongs at Camp Nou: “I’ve returned to really feel like a footballer, taking part in 90 minutes.
“I feel I’ve made the many of the alternative given to me.
“With the work I do and what I do in coaching, little by little, I am beginning to really feel like a footballer once more. You’ll be able to’t cease working as a result of that is Barca, the most effective group on the planet.
“The demand right here is the best as a result of the most effective on the planet are right here.”
Alena could possibly be given one other likelihood to shine when Barca play host to Osasuna in a must-win La Liga conflict on Sunday.
