{"id":309866,"date":"2025-08-01T18:01:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T18:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/309866\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T18:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T18:01:19","slug":"it-may-never-happen-grimaldo-eases-speculation-of-return-to-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/309866\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It may never happen&#8221; &#8211; Grimaldo eases speculation of return to Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Ultan Corcoran<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/UltanCorcoran\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:100%;color:#1da1f2;\" rel=\"noopener\">@UltanCorcoran<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what Bayer Leverkusen&#8217;s attack minded full-back had to say about his future ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to K\u00f6lner Stadt-Anzeiger, Alejandro Grimaldo gave his assessment of the last two years and his wish to play in Spain one day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very happy at the club. It has been two very special years with Xabi [Alonso], with the team, with titles. I now want to prepare myself and continue working towards my goals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I came to Leverkusen, I made my goals very clear to the club. I have always been a straightforward player and I am someone who likes to bring my personality to the fore.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My goal is to give my all wherever I am. I have given my all for Leverkusen. And I will always give 100 percent during my time here, but everyone has their goals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am almost 30 years old and would like to try my hand in Spain, playing in my home country. It doesn&#8217;t have to be this year. It could be next year, it could be in two years, or even five years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe it will never happen, but I&#8217;m sure the club understands my position. I always give 100 percent on the pitch and that won&#8217;t change,&#8221; the full-back explained.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Ultan Corcoran@UltanCorcoran Here&#8217;s what Bayer Leverkusen&#8217;s attack minded full-back had to say about his future ambitions. Speaking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-309866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114954822167958425","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}