{"id":610015,"date":"2022-02-17T02:51:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T07:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=610015"},"modified":"2022-02-17T02:51:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T07:51:12","slug":"papu-gomez-mind-remains-in-sevilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/02\/17\/papu-gomez-mind-remains-in-sevilla\/","title":{"rendered":"Papu Gomez Affirms That His Mind Remains in Sevilla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since arriving in Seville, it hasn\u2019t been the smoothest of rides for Papu Gomez. The Argentinian international reportedly fell out with Gian Piero Gasperini in his latter months at Atalanta and it was a real shame in truth. This team were everybody\u2019s second favourites across the continent and they were constantly delivering on a domestic front. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1493916403161870345\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">As per Fabrizio Romano\u2019s report<\/a>, Gomez has no intention to force a move away from the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Papu Gomez to Stay at Sevilla<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><strong>Gomez Staying Put With Title-Chasing Sevilla<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>That being said, Gomez was a great servant to that club and when he was in favour, he was a superb player in Bergamo. He is now a Sevilla player and Julen Lopetegui\u2019s men are engrossed in a title race alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/02\/04\/real-madrid-ac-milan-midfielder\/\" target=\"_self\">Real Madrid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Papu G\u00f3mez: \u201cI\u2019m not planning to leave Sevilla and come back to Italy &#8211; it\u2019s not true. My agent Riso was here just because of my birthday\u201d. \u26aa\ufe0f\ud83d\udd34 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Sevilla?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Sevilla<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Papu also confirms his feelings: \u201cI\u2019m more than happy here, I really enjoy Sevilla\u201d. \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf7<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1493916403161870345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Gomez came out and said \u201cI\u2019m not planning to leave Sevilla and come back to Italy &#8211; it\u2019s not true. My agent Riso was here just because of my birthday.\u201d In the current society, people are very quick to jump to conclusions online, especially in the sporting world.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>How Has he Fared in Spain Thus Far?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Gomez just turned 34 and so may be in the twilight stages of his career, but he still has a lot to offer. He has netted four times in his 1,211 La Liga minutes thus far this term.<\/p>\n<p>The diminutive yet-tricky attacker is part of a fairly concentrated squad, with Anthony Martial and Tecatico Corona arriving in the January window to add to the likes of Gomez, Suso, Lucas Ocampos and Erik Lamela.<\/p>\n<p>Gomez went on to say: \u201cI\u2019m more than happy here, I really enjoy Sevilla\u201d and so he could well play a major part in this title push. 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The Argentinian international reportedly fell out with Gian Piero Gasperini in his latter months at Atalanta and it was a real shame in truth. This team were everybody\u2019s second favourites across the continent and they were constantly delivering on a domestic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3891,"featured_media":610036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9172,366],"class_list":["post-610015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-la-liga","tag-papu-gomes","tag-sevilla"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}