Real Madrid's Federico Valverde Once Believed He'd Play For This Premier League Team

In a recent interview, Real Madrid midfielder Federico Valverde spoke about how a trial with a Premier League club could have changed his career path.

in 2016, Federico Valverde took just one season to break into the first team. Since then, he has been pivotal to Los Blancos, one of the first names on the, Valverde discussed several topics, including a trial at 16 with the top Premier League club, Arsenal, a time in his career when he thought that was where his future would be.The Uruguayan believed Arsenal was his club under legendary head coach Arsene Wenger.

Valverde spoke about former Arsenal players helping him while he was in London due to the lack of English he could speak. Former players such as Chilean Alexis Sanchez and Argentine Emi Martinez supported Valverde, both of South American descent. "I don’t know if he’ll remember me, but Dibu helped me the most in everything, along with Hector Bellerín, Alexis Sanchez, and Santi Cazorla. I didn’t know English, and they had to explain all the work to me."Who knows where Arsenal would be if they had signed Valverde. However, the Uruguayan midfielder has won two Champions League medals and three La Liga titles, so destiny put him in the right place.

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