Martin Zubimendi to Arsenal: The quality and character of Spain make it one of the world’s best not 6s | Football news

Arsenal believes that one of the best links in the world in Martin Zubimendi and they are not the only ones. After he also took Liverpool, Manchester City, Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​his elite credentials are clear.

Zubimendi won the European Championships last year and arrived at the international level, helping Club Club Club Real Sociedad won silver accessories in Copa del ReI and played a key role in his return to the Champions League last year.

There’s a lot to like about him. The 26-year-old features outside possession, marry intelligence and outstanding techniques with deceit physics at the base field, where it acts as a metronos passing and the screen for its defense.

But that’s not all. The impression was left with a conversation with its former coaches and teams is a player defined by its strength of character and physical attributes.

“It’s first about Martin that a complete person, as a complete player,” Aitor Zulaika, former real coach of Sociedad, which closely cooperated with Zubimenda as an Assistant Cab Alons in Club B in Club B in Club B in Club B team Ski Sports.

“There are four characteristics that are not easy together together. He is a very humble and simple person, but it is also very proud and has a really strong personality with all these qualities. Martin is one.”

Benoit Cachenaut, the center he played with a teenage tooth in the Real Sociedad’s TeaM, uses the same word to summarize him. “There was always a very complete player,” he says Ski sports. “Technically, fast, intelligent, strong.

“You could already see that he had the highest level. But as well as very good on the field, he was a very humble guy, always smiling, always very kind.”

The Kachenaut reminds himself of visiting the Zubimendi, while he wiped in the hospital in the hospital after the knee surgery. “He was one of the only guys who came to see me,” he says. It was typical for a player who was known for crossing additional miles on the field as well as excluded.

“He was a very disciplined guy who was very serious about his job,” he added Zulaiku. “He was smart, he listened to his coaches and was polite and respected with everyone.”

The impression of Carlos Martinez, former right back with more than 200 performances for Real Sociedad.

“As soon as we all saw him, we could see that there was something different, something that attracts attention from us who played football,” he says Ski Sports. “It’s just the way he moves the ball and the person who showed even in such a young age.”

Zubimendi has found more than 200 higher performances for Real Sociedad. Examples of professionals, its personality now represents a significant part of his appeal against Arsenal.

The club needs a player with its profile in the role no. 6. “They still don’t have a deep-bound player who can take the ball on the back,” he said Ski Sports Pundit Gary Neiville recently.

But they also need someone to replace experience and leadership, they will lose from the departure of Jorginho. Zubimendi, although seven years younger, corresponds to an account that brought by example during their time in Real Sociedad.

Intractive, it is also good appropriate for Arsenal manager, with which he shares a common country. Mikel Arteta, like Zubimidi, grew up in San Sebastian city and played for Real Sociedad. They even started at the same youth club called Antiquities.

‘More like Alonso than arteta’

Arteta was viewed as a future star right from the beginning of his time with Antiguoka and continued to join Barcelona Masia Academy at the age of 15. Zubimendi, however, did not point out originally.

“He was very shy and physically did not greatly develop”, Roberto Montiel, the Vice President of the Club who trained the young arteta, remembers Ski Sports.

“Real Sociedad was tried several times, but he didn’t sign it,” he added. “He was not considered the right level. It was only when he was 14, after we told them that Atletico Madrid was also interested in, that they decided to take him.”

Until that moment, Zubimendi was more developed physically and better able to express his talent.

“He could play with both legs, he was a fast thinker and was always in the right positions on the field,” says Montiel. “He was like Xabi Alonsa in the way he saw football.”

And Montiel should know. He trained Alonso in the same youth team as arteta. Alonso would continue to train the teeth in real Sociedad B team. Antiguoko connection continues, five years, Zubimendi is preparing to work with Artet on Arsenal.

“I would say Martin is more similar to Xabi than Mikel, as a boy as a player,” says Montiel.

“Like Xabia, he was a great passer-by that he brought good decisions. He knew him well. But he was also a bit of an introvert, with the likeness of Xabi, while Martin was able to be a little unnoticed because.”

It all changed in Real Sociedad’s academy, where Zubimendi increased in confidence, as well as physical states. “He was already a very good player for them in his first year, but in his second, as in 16, that he really exploded,” Montiel recalled.

“It was pretty clear to everyone at the club that it would arrive at the first team,” Zulaiku added. “The qualities that then showed was similar to those you see now. He is so good with the ball, controlling the game, passing.

“But he is well defended and good in all aspects. He can break down the rows by driving forward with the ball, he shot, he walks a lot of miles, and he crossed so many passes.

“When he took a step to join us in Real Sociedad B, he was a young player who was playing with guys who were three or four years old, but he didn’t fate him at all.

He’s so good with the ball, controlling the game, passes. But he also defends great too. It’s good in all aspects

“He was not a lot of conversation, but it was understandable that he was with more elderly players. He was talking to the ball. He was not long to beat his place in the team. Once he had, no one could put it down.”

Zubimendi has become similarly important at the level of the first team, playing more minutes for real sodes than any other Outfield player in the last three seasons.

But the best demonstration of its ability to print under pressure last year has arrived at the international phase, when he has stepped on the injured relative at halftime from the final victory in Europe in Germany in Germany.

Martinez pulled his cheeks in mentioning it. “You saw how much the will was to drive the ball, to drive forward, to be brave. It just has so much confidence in his abilities.”

“The only reason he didn’t start was that he was behind the best players in the world in his position,” Zulaiku added. “We were all aware of his huge quality, but you have to do it in the greatest stage and that’s what he did against England.”

‘He could play for any team in the world’

The Zubimendi showed that other half in Berlin that he abolished the challenges, which Zipping passed through the lines and driving Spain in a way that is typical of him.

They are the properties that Arsenal will now have aim to take advantage of. Zubimendi is characterized on circulating possession and construction of an attack from the midfield, like Thomas Partei and Jorginho, but he also brave and forwarded the passer.

“It was a great game behind as a central counsel because he always asked for the ball and he was never afraid to play,” his former team cafe says.

Can be seen in numbers. This season, Zubimendi sent a higher percentage of passing forward than in Partei, Jorginho or Declan Rice, at 31.39 percent. His ending rate is lower, 84.42 percent, but only because it takes more risk.

Almost in Laliga this season, only four, everyone plays for Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid or Atletico Madrid, Pedrico, Federico Valverde, Rodrigo de Paul and Jude Bellingham, made more more progressive enlightened by Zubimi.

This level of cutting will be worth the arsenal, especially after the prime minister’s league season in which they regularly rolled deep-bearing defense. Zubimendi has a sense to speed, either through the passage or carrying the ball forward.

“I think he’s a player’s profile that miss you,” says Montiel.

“They have rice from the declar, they have Mikel Merino, they have Martin Odegaard, but they miss them when they play with one or two touches.

“I think that the zubimdi is such a player who needs it for it. He can play all types of passages and above that reading the game so well. I think it could be really good for them.”

“No doubt,” Zulaika agrees. “Regardless of the competition, whether it was Premier League, Laliga, or European Championship, would have a place in any team in the world.

“I can’t see much better players in my position.”

“He reminds me a lot of Alonso, who had great success in the Premier League, and he is also very, very good tactically,” Martinez added. “He can get in and covers in central back, in full back. He understands the game so well. If you ask me, he asks me, ready to ask me.”

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