The villain is not Neiser (opinion)

Now it turns out that fulfilling the dream of international football is disloyal, ungrateful, disrespectful, even illegal. And it is nothing more than the ball soiled by the anachronistic who insist on ignoring the evidence: the business has always been the footballers, the difference is that now they know it.

This is how we witness, amidst the confusion, the demonization of one of the great promises of Colombian football by a boss incapable of sizing up the business he had in hand in time, and who only seeks to save his skin from the well-deserved public ridicule.

This is the story of Neiser Villarreal, the apple of discord that once again punishes Millonarios with sips of the same medicine that made Andrés Felipe Román wear green today. Nothing was learned along the way.

Because Millonarios got tired of making mistakes with their number 9 and now they want to pass the bill for that resounding failure on to him. How is it possible that his contract ends in November, when everyone knows that the competition is in full swing? Who allows him to be lost at a key moment of the season and for the club to be forced to pay him whatever he asks to renew if he turns out to be a star? Oh, of course! They thought that at that point in the year he would only have the option of renewing on the terms his club wanted, but they didn't see that he could also leave for free in the middle of the year, with the summer market open and FIFA protecting his rights. Brilliant move, without a doubt.

The rhythm of the universe seems so blue that it gave the club 'double match point' to notice that a player who was in the process of being selected for the Colombian National Team, in the year of the South American Under-20 Championship (probably the best showcase on the continent) and the World Cup in the category in Chile, was going to return full of offers. But they did not want to or could not see him. For the effect it is equally heartbreaking.

Now that he is the sensation of South America with his 8 goals, and that they say he is wanted from England, Spain, Brazil and even the United States, do they intend to pressure and threaten him with problems that he will NEVER have? Of course not.

Because that is the reality: if the boy does not want to train, he does not do it; if he does not want to leave a peso for the blue team, he becomes incapacitated and recovers miraculously in two months when he no longer needs their approval to leave with his pockets full as a free agent; if he wants to, he goes to the ordinary courts and tells the judge that with 136 minutes played he can allege 'just sporting cause' to end his contract and he leaves without saying goodbye; if they deny or hinder his ITC (International Transfer Certificate, necessary to play in any league) the justices of the world protect the right to work and authorize him in a matter of days. And the fact is that there are few, if not none, options that the blue team has to force him to fulfill the 9 months of contract that he still has left.

If arrogance were not the leitmotiv of the story, the smart thing to do would be to sign him now for the amount he asks for and then collect from the club that takes him (as Aston Villa did with Duran) or settle for a good-hearted compensation and not a large transfer fee which, as things stand, is almost impossible. But you don't reason with someone who believes himself to be the sole owner of reason... what a paradox.

That's why any fan who buys into the idea of ​​a villain who only exists in the office of whoever let Neiser Villarreal's turtle get away is wrong.

While he tears out his throat and tears his fingers apart on the keyboard, butchering the boy, someone at a cocktail party smiles at seeing his inability once again go unpunished. Don't buy into other people's fights: most of the time, the guilty party is rewarded.