Real Sociedad signs Sergio Gomez for 8.7 million for 6 seasons

Left-back with attacking projection, versatile, left-footed, good support, with charisma – necessary to be captain of the U21 team – and the talent of La Masia, but who has not had a minute in any of the best templates in the world, Manchester City.

Sergio Gomez (Badalona, ​​2000) will play for Real Sociedad for the next six seasons after an agreement was reached between the two clubs on Thursday. Real will pay €8.7 million for the player’s transfer, with City reserving 25% of the capital gains from a hypothetical future sale. Once the final details of the contract have been worked out, it will be officially made public.

Thus, La Real acquires a young player, but with experience in elite football, and Sergio Gomez joins a team that he has always admired, as he admitted in an interview, and thus sees his horizon clearer before focusing on the Paris Olympics, in which he will participate. will coincide with Pacheco and Turrientes. The moment his Olympic competitions are over, he will join Real Madrid training.

The first signings of the summer will arrive to plug a gap in the area where Real have not had enough troops in recent times. Aichen Munoz, currently recovering from a knee injury, is the only specific player in this position, with both Galan and Tierney returning to their clubs after their Real Madrid loan spells. Imanol has even used a right-footer like John Mikel Aramburu to compensate for the absence in this position.

Sergio Gomez is one of the players who has long been marked in red by the Real Madrid sporting directorate. The 23-year-old Catalan player, who grew up in La Masia Blaugrana, is a long-time desire of Olabe, and the Thuri-Urdina sporting directorate really likes him. Just as Borge Mayoral has long liked the position of central striker. He is another player who is always on the radar of the sporting director and Mayoral, who is currently injured in his knee. There is no summer when he does not allow himself to be loved.

Sergio Gomez was already considered as a possible addition to the defence last season, but they eventually settled on Kieran Tierney. The Scot had high hopes, but ongoing physical problems have brought his career at Zubieta to a complete halt.

Gomez is a profile that matches what Imanol is looking for. An attacking left-back, with good support, the ability to get out of pressure well, but also the ability to make good crosses, thanks to his early career as a footballer. The left winger turned full-back, in the U-21 team he also usually played as a midfielder, and in other teams he even had minutes as an inside player. In short, a versatile player to keep in mind for the future. The reports about him when he was a Huesca player in the 2020/21 season have already pleased Anoeta. The question is whether this desire to attack makes him go back. At Imanol, it is about the player seeing that his place is at the back.

The defender had a contract with City until 2026. In the summer of 2022, the Citizens paid Anderlecht 15 million euros for the services of the Catalan, who spent a very full season with the Belgian team. With only six games in the League and a few minutes in the Champions League, the footballer hopes to resume his career and will try to do so at Real Madrid.

Huesca and Borussia Dortmund.

He left Barça in 2017 for Borussia Dortmund, where he did not find his place, and returned to play for Huesca in the second division. In the team that won the league and was promoted to the first division in the 19/20 season, he played as a striker and sometimes as a midfielder. He spent another year in the top division at El Alcoraz and was signed by Belgian club Anderlecht, where he changed his career. There he put himself under the command of Vincent Kompany, the new coach of Bayern Munich, who moved his position back to make him play as a striker. “Kompany, before I signed for Anderlecht, gave me a talk that lifted my spirits. He told me that he had seen my last games at Huesca, that in the end, with Pacheta, we played with a five-man defense. He said that he saw me as a full-back and that in this position I saw myself more for a big team than a winger. The following year it was like that,” the Relevo player admitted recently. It was in this defensive position that he showed his best results. He stood out so much that he attracted the attention of City itself. Guardiola asked to sign him.

He played twelve games for City in his first season in Manchester, contributing to a season that culminated in the Premier League and the Champions League. He then took charge of the Under-21s in the European Cup, where he resumed his more attacking role as a striker, alternating with that of a playmaker, including as a right winger. La Rojita reached the final, where they lost to England. Turrientes, Pacheco and Barrenechea shared the dressing room with the Barcelona native.

The footballer, who turns 24 next September, knows that now is a good time to try to settle into a sporting project like Real Madrid after playing away from home against 20/21. He said he likes the way Real Madrid play and is a fan of David Silva. “When I arrived at City, there was a number available: it was Silva’s number 21. I took it without hesitation,” he said.

Now he will be a City player who goes to Real Madrid. The time has come. He prioritises regular football – he played just 449 minutes in all competitions last season – over the titles he could have won with City.