Fernando Gaibor is no longer wanted by Independiente del Valle, Barcelona SC has insisted on the player

The soccer player Fernando Gaibor told this Wednesday that it will not take place next season within Valley Independenta club in which he has been since mid-2021, and that Barcelona is one of the teams that has wanted to have him lately.

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“My relationship with Independiente ends on December 31st. There was already a conversation in which the coach (Martín Anselmi) decided not to take me into account for next year. Since I was on loan, I continue as a free player ”, Gaibor said this day to the medium on the internet Delta.

Gaibor will be released from action in January and is calm about the options that would appear to him to continue his career at 31 years of age. “I don’t worry much. I have had to be in several groups and one realizes that in football everything happens. I’m a bit old fashionedIt depends a lot on the competition that one generates, if it is going to be one more, to work from scratch”.

With Independiente, Gaibor won the 2021 LigaPro Serie A, the 2022 Ecuador Cup and the 2022 South American Cup. Last year, in the domestic championship, he played eleven times since mid-season (he arrived from Guayaquil City) and scored one goal; this year, in the FEF tournament, he recorded ten performances.

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Both national titles are added to the four that the midfielder holds as a historic Emelec. He won Ecuador’s first division in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017.

Precisely the electric club, according to the player, wanted to count on him again. Also the classic rival, Barcelona, although Gaibor denies direct and clear approaches: “No, not at all. There were conversations with my representative to express his intention to have my services. Both clubs expected to finish the negotiations they were doing (with other footballers) before focusing on me, that’s the only thing.”

Gaibor said that the Canarian team has tried to sign him on several occasions, especially at the beginning of 2021: “Yes, it was real. It was also true that at all times my priority was Emelec. It was not due to situations that remain in the past. In the middle of the year too (the approach of Barcelona)”.

The Los Ríos footballer did not close the door on an eventual option to return to football abroad. He already had a bad run for Independiente de Avellaneda (Argentina) and another inconsequential one for Al-Wasl (United Arab Emirates). “The player is very tempted to go abroad. I am open to any possibility, to challenges, ”he declared. (D)