Real Betis sports chief Ramon Planes says they remain hopeful of securing Guido Rodriguez to a new contract.

The Argentina midfielder's current deal runs to June.

Planes said, "I have always said that there are two parts. In which we can influence, we're doing everything so that Guido can continue at Betis.

"We did it in the summer, which has a lot of merit in rejecting the offers that were made for him, it would have been easy to accept them and we didn't do it, we continue to give him that affection and that interest, those negotiations are still in force.

"Today he is here, seeing the facilities, he is a magnificent boy, on a human level, with tremendous humility, and I told him 'look, you are going to enjoy all this', and he laughed. One more demonstration that we love him is that he is here today as captain of the team and that he sees that the club has a project and we would like him to be here."