Jesse Rodriguezthat player who was going to be a star at Real Madrid and ended up crashing in the PSGThe youth player of the white team raised many expectations in Valdebebas as part of that white youth team that was promoted to the Second Division in 2012, a season in which scored 22 goals and in which many fans considered him as the future successor of Cristiano Ronaldo. That great year earned him his debut with the first team under the guidance of Jose Mourinhostaying three seasons in the first team, in which he scored 18 goals in total. Expectations far from what he expected from the striker.
Jesé’s career began to go wrong in 2015, when an injury his breakthrough at Real Madrid, the club of his dreams, was cut short. Once he had recovered, on August 8, 2016 he changed teams and put heading to Paris to sign with PSG, determined to become one of the best players in the world and not just a substitute. But the Parisian adventure was described by the French fans themselves as an absolute failure. So much so that he had to look for a way out due to the lack of minutes. After the French adventure, the Canary Islander tried his luck even in seven different teamsfrom loan to loan and in none of them did he see his best version: Las Palmas, Stoke City, Betis, Sporting de Portugal, Ankaragucu, Sampdoria and Coritiba. His last adventure was in Brazil, but on November 29th the Coritiba announced that he would not extend his contract. Since then, the striker has been training at his facilities with the dream of finding a team again and showing the potential that he promised at 18 years old.
What could have been and what was not
But the sad reality is that Jesse’s flame went out long time ago, though in 2024 He only played 90 minutes in six games during his brief spell in Brazil. To see a full match of the Spaniard, you have to go back to April 2022, when he played 90 minutes for Las Palmas in the Segunda Liga match against Ponferradina.
A promising career that has gone from more to less. After those full 90 minutes, all the matches he has played in Italy, Brazil or Turkey he could not complete or started them from the benchfigures that are not up to the standard of a player who received a standing ovation from a demanding Santiago Bernabéu.
To see his last goal as a professional player you have to look back to November 26th of last year against Fluminenseprecisely against the team of his former teammate Marcelo.
The canary He has not found a team in the last two transfer markets. Despite being a free agent and having greater ease in negotiating a contract, everything indicates that he will not be playing in this summer market either. But he has not lost his hope, He continues training individually to be physically prepared for when the time comes to return to the field. In his social networks He uploads daily how he continues to tone up physically to stay in shape and try to return to football, at the Ciudad Deportiva de Las Palmas.
