“I would never have left Lazio. I would have stayed for life. And I often think about it: who knows if we could have won the Scudetto in 2020. We were there. Then Covid arrived, the lockdown arrived. Without it, we would have played it until the last day. We were there to win, for sure. Because I don’t know what happened. As soon as the championship resumed, we lost Leiva and Cataldi to injury, but also Marusic and Patric. There were only a few of us left, after two months of stopping, and our pace was no longer the same. Until February, we won home games in the 20th minute. We were leading with Juventus, with 17 wins out of 22 games, and we had lifted the Italian Super Cup. It was normal for us to talk about it in the locker room.”
The words of Luis Albertoformer Lazio midfielder, seem like blows for those who decided to “send him away”. Except that the Spaniard, over the course of the seasons – one after the other – has always expressed the idea of saying goodbye to the Biancocelesti. Rather than staying for life, the idea was to return to Andalusia, for better or for worse. A transfer that had never reached checkers mainly for two reasons: the strategic position of the attacking midfielder on the Biancocelesti board, but also the lack of offers of an adequate level for Lazio.
Then came the proposal from Qatar and the agreement for around 11 million euros. At that point Luis Alberto, after eight seasons with the Biancoceleste, asked (once again) to be sold, having had it. It’s right to make other choices, but also to say things as they would be. Today Luis Alberto turns 32.