in comments to the Italian newspaper “La Gazzetta dello Sport”<\/a>: “Luka is an exceptional person. I was lucky enough to know him when I was younger and I was with him at Real Madrid. I trained with the first team, and although I did not interact with him much, I saw him as a reference. He was a player worthy of admiration, of being watched and learned from.”<\/p>\n“Being with Luka here at Milan represents a gift from fate for me,” he added. “I love talking to him, getting to know him, listening to his advice and everything he can pass on to me. I am confident that he will make me improve a great deal as a player, and above all, on a mentality level.”<\/p>\n
Milan handed Gila a contract until June 2031 and paid 30 million euros to sign him this summer from Lazio, proof of the trust they’ve placed in him. It’s a trust the player wants to repay on the pitch. “Coming here means, for me, fulfilling a dream in a way,” he said. “Ever since I was a child, like everyone, I thought about becoming a player, but reaching these levels is not easy. So it is a dream.”<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old’s summer preparations hit a slight snag in late July. He was forced to stop after suffering a strain in his right rectus femoris muscle during the friendly against Celtic, but got over it without any injury occurring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spanish defender Mario Gila, currently of Milan and formerly of Real Madrid, has confirmed that being reunited with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[180,26248,27924,82,83,1644],"class_list":["post-71910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-madrid","tag-ac-milan","tag-l-modric","tag-m-gila","tag-madrid","tag-real-madrid","tag-serie-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}