Maty Ryan He is firmly hopeful of playing again later this month after undergoing knee surgery on July 26. The Australian goalkeeper explained in a talk with the media in his country the reason for his departure from the Premier League and his arrival at Real. “I’m really excited to be back [en La Liga] and eager to get to work and see what can be developed in this next chapter, “he maintains. He does not hide that” he was really enjoying the Premier League and the challenges of that, but he did not see the possibility of continuing at Arsenal, team in which he was a player on loan from Brighton.
“We contacted them (Arsenal) just before making a decision to see what their position was and they simply gave me their opinion that I was not at the top of their list,” says the goalkeeper to argue his departure from the ‘gunners’. “The information that came to me was that perhaps they were looking for a goalkeeper from the quarry to take a place there,” he adds.
And in that scenario, the offer of the Real arrived, with which he signed for two seasons with an option to another depending on objectives, and the rumor of the interest of Celtic of Glasgow arose. “It was never a concrete option, obviously there was a lot of speculation in the media about it,” says the goalkeeper. The goal himself said in his presentation in the txuri urdin squad that Villarreal also called him, but “at that moment Real Sociedad appeared, expressed interest and we really liked the project they were describing to us.” The problem is that he was injured in one of the first training sessions and he will not be able to start the League and do the competition at Remiro.
A false start for Brighton
Ryan is grateful for the good three and a half years he spent at Brighton, but didn’t like his departure last December: “Obviously, when something is personal to you, it feels like a personal attack on you and all that.” fences. He asked to leave because he had lost his position in goal for the benefit of Robert Sanchez, the Spanish international: “When you are able to walk away and look at it, I am not the first person that a team leaves aside or does not want; it happens to everyone,” he clarifies.
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