PETE JENSON: Mason Greenwood’s new membership Getafe are essentially the most unloved facet in LaLiga… they lack the historical past of the older groups and attraction of the extra vibrant ones

Getafe head coach Jose Bordalas has defended the club’s decision at hand Mason Greenwood a manner again into soccer.

The 21-year-old joined the LaLiga facet on mortgage from Manchester United, who suspended him in January 2022 over intercourse offence expenses which have been dropped seven months in the past.

Greenwood did not make his Getafe debut throughout final evening’s 2-1 defeat high Real Madrid, however Bordelas was nonetheless pressed on the membership’s choice to signal him.

‘It’s a very delicate scenario to trivialise that subject,’ he mentioned. ‘Everybody is aware of what occurred and acceptable measures have been taken. Everybody is aware of the way it ended, with a non-convictory sentence.

‘He’s a footballer of a really excessive stage and arrives at Getafe with huge enthusiasm.’

Mason Greenwood joined Spanish facet Getafe on mortgage from Manchester United on Friday evening

Getafe might be essentially the most unloved membership in La Liga as they lack of historical past and attraction 

With neither the historical past of a number of the older groups in Spain nor the attraction of the extra vibrant ones, Getafe might be essentially the most unloved membership in La Liga.

And it was Getafe who snapped up Manchester United outcast Greenwood on a mortgage deal on Friday evening.

There was some affection for the ‘Blues’ once they reached a Europa League quarter-final towards Bayern Munich in 2008 however they’ve lengthy since stopped been the neutrals’ favorite. 

That superb European run got here taking part in the open, expansive soccer of Michael Laudrup however now, with uncompromising Jose Bordalas in cost, they’re a bruising, no- nonsense outfit set as much as frustrate groups and opposing coaches and cling on to high flight standing.

Bordalas additionally had them in Europe in his first spell on the membership, earlier than he joined Valencia. He got here again final season to save lots of them from the drop and did so averaging 20 fouls a sport and 35 per cent possession.

In Bordalas’s first spell Getafe often topped the yellow and purple card charts, however his fashion was not less than efficient. Now, with their finest striker, Enes Unal, out injured till subsequent 12 months, they’re favorites to be within the relegation battle.

Locals say Getafe, on the outskirts of Madrid, is a protected place to dwell, with a low crime fee, and the price of residing is decrease than within the Spanish capital. It’s quieter and has much less site visitors than Madrid. Their open Alfonso Perez Coliseum Stadium hardly ever fills to its 16,500 capability however in the event you meet a Getafe fan, then you definitely genuinely need to shake their hand.

Jude Bellingham scored deep into injury-time to assist Actual Madrid overcome Getafe 

Getafe tweeted a video of jubilant followers celebrating the Greenwood’s arrival outdoors their stadium

It’s a powerful life following a membership which has solely the 1998–99 Second Division title within the trophy cupboard and is only a 50-minute drive from the shiny, new Bernabeu, the place the 2 groups met on Saturday, Real winning 2-1 with Jude Bellingham scoring a 95th-minute winner.

Even the membership’s president, Angel Torres, is a card-carrying Madrid fan, so these from Getafe who select to again their native facet are to be admired. The followers have been actually happy with Torres on Friday evening, once they gathered to rejoice the signing of Greenwood.

However whereas these outdoors the stadium have been leaping with pleasure, many on social media have been questioning the membership’s choice, particularly in gentle of the row engulfing the Spanish ladies’s World Cup-winning crew and the Spanish FA boss, Luis Rubiales. ‘With all the things occurring with the Spanish ladies’s crew, you use this man. Embarrassing,’ wrote one supporter.

Maybe that fan remembers that in 2011 Getafe produced a brief Seventies-style movie that includes ‘sex-mad ladies’, referred to as ‘Attractive Zombies of Getafe’, to help a tongue-in-cheek promoting marketing campaign encouraging male supporters to donate sperm.