“It’s not up to me anymore”

Going through his last year of contract with the Corinthiansthe midfielder luanspoke for the first time in a long time about his situation at the club. It’s been more than a year since the athlete has played for Timão, and on the “Denilson Show” podcast, he told about his conversation with Luxembourgand prospects for the future in the team.

“When he arrived, I just told him: “I don’t need to tell a sad story, you know how my situation is, and the only thing I ask of you is that you put me to train with the group, and if you want to use me, it’s up to you”. I said that the situation was killing me and that he would let me train with the ‘guys’ “, said the player.

Luan’s last match wearing a Corinthians shirt was at Paulistão in 2022, when Fernando Lazaro was the interim coach, and put the midfielder in the starting line-up in the match against Botafogo-SP, on the 19th of February. After that he still had opportunities in the short loan to saintsbut now he doesn’t see much prospect in the alvinegro of the capital.

“For me to say that to him, it’s because I’m 100% prepared physically and psychologically, with an absurd desire to play. Even more so here (at Corinthians). But then he said that I have to want to have the opportunity, I replied that I would show if he put me to train with the group. I’ve been training two periods since the beginning of the year, training on the outside, but what I see now is that it’s not up to me anymore“.

In addition, Luan also commented on how his relationship with Victor Pereira, which according to him, promised minutes, but never ended up granting. Hired in 2020, the athlete played 78 official matches with Timão’s shirt, having scored 9 goals.