New is always better, or so they at least seem to think Mendilibar and Garagarza when making Eibar squads. And it is that since the Zaldibar coach arrived at the gunsmith team back in the 15/16 season, only one player has played in the armory entity all the campaigns in full: Sergi
Enrich.
The Menorcan striker landed in Ipurua just 12 days after he did Joseph
Luis
Mendilibar, which did so on July 1, 2015, and since then the path of both has not separated. After two magnificent campaigns at Numancia, Enrich took a leap in quality upon arrival in the armory town to become practically the entity's franchise player. In his first campaign alone Borja Baston, with 18 goals, he scored more than the nine he raised to the markers EnrichWhile in his second year as a Barça player, no one could beat his record of 11 goals.
At the end of the 18/19 course, strong rumors arose that placed the '9' Barça player in a Premier League team, although the Balearic, prioritizing “other things such as being at ease, being happy and feeling highly valued”, decided to continue linked to Eibar until 2022. He has two seasons left.
Since your arrival in Gipuzkoa, Sergi
Enrich he has played 169 official matches in which he has scored 35 goals. He is one of the team captains and next season he will try to continue to inflate that data. He is currently the nineteenth player who has worn the elastic armory the most times and may in the following campaign surpass mythical players such as Gaizka
Garitano (164), Txema
Añibarro (169), Mikel
Arruabarrena (188), Ander
Cap (190) or Txiki
Lombraña (193). He is also the club's fourth historic scorer just behind Arruabarrena (Four. Five), Luluaga (55) and Altuna (56).
Kike or Inui, other classics
But Sergi Inrich He is not the only member of the current Eibar that has become another classic of the entity. During the 2015/2016 campaign, players such as Takashi
Inui, Kike
Garcia, Ivan
Ramis or Gonzalo
Escalante.
These last two have left the gunship at the end of this last very atypical season. Ramis has decided to hang up his boots after the severe punishment he has suffered because of the injuries, while Escalante He will call at Lazio at zero cost after an agreement closed last Christmas.
Talking about Inui, He played the first three courses at a very high level that helped him to sign for Betis, although adaptation problems caused him to have to leave in winter on loan to Alavés. He returned to Eibar last summer and still has a contract until 2022.
By last, Kike
Garcia He signed for Eibar in the winter market of 15/16, although he could not debut as a gunsmith until the following season because his team of origin, the English Middlesbrough, sent the transfer late.
The trajectory of Sergi Enrich in Eibar it has gone from more to less. In his first two seasons, he achieved goalscoring figures within the reach of very few battering rams in the championship after having scored nine and 11 goals. His third was somewhat weaker with just three goals to his credit and in his fourth year at Ipurua he drilled the rival goal seven times, although this last season he has only been able to score a single goal, on matchday 12 in the victory for 3-0 to Granada.
The lack of a goal from his forwards has been one of the biggest problems he has had to deal with over the last year Joseph
Luis
Mendilibar that, after the departure of Charles, Orellana or Of
Blasis he needs his Praetorian Guard to be able to show his best level on the green so that the Ipuruans extend their stay in the top flight from the following season onwards.
Of course, despite the fact that their scoring figures have been far from their best numbers, Mendilibar He continues to greatly value the work and sacrifice that the Menorcan striker carries out every time he wears the Barca elastic. Enrich he is still very powerful in the air and behind his back.