Everton hot on Fabián Ruiz trail

Why the big ones do not take their eyes off Fabian: the 'flea' of the Betis who is already a giant

At twenty-one, Fabián is the undisputed holder at Betis and in the Spanish U-21 team, the big ones are prowling him sniffing his low rescission clause

Translated from Spanish news website El Confidencial

Fabián Ruiz (21) went from being a squad player of Real Betis to jewel in the crown of Heliopolis. Everything in a matter of a few months. From skinny scary to prince of the bética tier. A grandstand that reveres his people and also looks with hawk eyes at the fine print of a contract that burns: its clause of rescission ( 15 million ) puts it in the hands of the great. In Betis they do not want Fabián to become a new ' Ceballos case '. The player does not say a word. That little boy wants to be a giant.

Fabián Ruiz has been at Betis for so long that he does not even remember the day he put on the jersey of the thirteen green and white bars for the first time. He entered with 7 years and was part of the first batch of prebenjamines players. From there, step by step, as a snail climbs a reed after the first rains in April, Fabian climbed places and climbing teams to get to play in the first, Real Betis Balompié, in the highest category. He is the squad player who has often worn the Bética jersey of history. Make accounts.

A native of Los Palacios, the same town as Jesús Navas , Fabián is a Bético de Cuna and his father, a humble palatial worker, took him to try the sports city of Bética, on the Cádiz road , twenty minutes by car from his town . But in the house of the Ruiz was not the issue for many expenses and warned Betis. Thus, in the club of Verdiblanco, aware of the value of the boy and by Manuel Castaño , they placed the mother of a cleaner in the Ciudad Deportiva Luis del Sol. Mama Chari , discreet and smiling woman, became Fabian's guide and guardian until recently.

The boy barely raised a foot of the ground, they called him ' the flea ', but he handled the ball with ease and the elegance of a dancer. With 14 years, already in the second year of childhood, that skinny blonde rubbed a huge spurt: he grew 30 centimeters in six months. Now, at 21 years old, it measures almost 190 centimeters. And his long legs give him vip credentials in the field.

He went up to the first team with nineteen years , but that Betis a few seasons ago breathed very convulsive airs. In fact, last January, Fabian, fed up with so much bench (Poyet, the coach, neither wanted him nor Ceballos), agreed to go on loan to Elche. In the team from Elche, under the orders of former Madrid midfielder Alberto Toril , the left-hander from Los Palacios regained the rhythm of competition and also joy. Toril praises the virtues of Fabián: "He is a footballer with enormous qualities . He is a very complete player, physically and technically. It is one of the most talented young people in the whole country. It does not stop growing in football. Its ceiling is high . I would have liked to have it longer. "

The Real Betis also like you to have Fabian much longer. With a professional contract until 2020, the clause of the talented player is 15 million euros, a figure that many clubs postín show willing to pay. Among them, the Barcelona , whose technicians scrutinize the fertile heliopolitana quarry and in their reports reflect wonders of a kid whose projection has no horizon. For the moment, he is a starter in the Verdiblanco team and in the U-21 team.

His representative, Álvaro Torres (of You First Sports), was seen days ago at the offices of Benito Villamarín. The contacts, initially optimistic, were covered in shadows. The Betis wants to raise the salary to Fabian (is one of the lowest of the list of footballers), but also the clause, which does not make much fun to his agents, who do not see fair balance between clause and tab. The conversations between the parties are presumed long and with curves. In the midst of a tense silence, the voice of Quique Setién, the first team coach, said: "The day I can, if you do not sign, I will sit down with him so that he finds out. It's the same thing I told Dani Ceballos this summer. It is not the moment for Fabian to leave theBetis . It's time for him to grow up here, now that he plays in a stable club and a team with a phenomenal way of playing that has grown in four months more than it has grown in twenty years. "

The scouters of the Premier League (Arsenal, West Ham, Chelsea , Everton, Newcastle ...) appear more and more frequently until the Villamarín. They are very aware of Fabian. But the player does not want to talk about the matter. At twenty-one , the undisputed holder of a first-rate club in Primera, his thing is to continue growing and adding. The son of Chari, the cleaner of the Sports City, is a ' flea ' with very high sights.