James Rodriguez is “completely committed” to Everton and Carlo Ancelotti has urged fans to ignore rumours that he’s unhappy. And Ancelotti was keen to stress that Rodriguez is “really sad” at not being able to help Everton this weekend, with the team still chasing the possibility to European qualification.
Carlo Ancelotti said: “James is totally committed to Everton because at the beginning he had a strong desire to come to show his quality. He was able to show his quality at the beginning. He had problems and for this reason is really sad and really disappointed for this part of the season where he was not able to help the team. I hope he will be able to show his quality for the national team and I hope he will be back next season without this kind of problem he had in the final part. He is completely committed – don’t listen [to rumours], he is really committed, and he is really sad (not to be playing). I don’t know where he is now, but yesterday [Thursday] after the chat we had he was able to leave. I don’t know if he left yesterday or left this morning but he is allowed to leave.”
