219 million budget. Almost twice less than Wolves and Roma, three less than Inter, four less than Manchester United. The Europa League express of the Nervionense team summarizes the miracle of a club that has rebelled against the continental oligarchy, at least against its second line, and challenges it by ruling the Europa League with an iron fist. Six titles in six finals over 14 years for Nervión, some won against tough opponents such as the Neroazzurro, Klopp's Liverpool or Portuguese Benfica, who knelt in the 2014 penalty shootout for the third Sevilla title, the first in a dynasty that included those of 2015 and 2016. The final of the Super Cup to be played on September 24 in Budapest against PSG or Bayern It will be the 12th of the Nervionenses: more than any team in Europe in this century.
Monchi left for Roma in 2017 but Sevilla never fell from the elite. That same season reached the Champions League quarter-finals after defeating Manchester United at Old Trafford and also qualified for a Copa del Rey final, the second in three years. Before the decade turned, in 2007 and 2010, the Nervión team had lifted two Spanish KO tournament titles during golden years in which to the first two UEFAS (2006 and 2007) would also add two Super Cups, from Europe (2006) and from Spain (2007).
The capital gains of the Cadiz sports director, who a few weeks ago served two decades in office, including the Roman parenthesis, they are the basis of the unusual growth of a team that until it reached the European final in Eindhoven and won it, In 2006, he had gone almost four and a half decades without playing a single title, he was defeated by Real Madrid in the 1962 Generalissimo Cup. Around 500 million in transfers has entered Sevilla with Monchi as sports executor and that same figure is the one that the club had as a budget objective in the next five years to try to compete with Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atlético in Spain and the rest of the greats of Europe in search of the final jump, the one that would give him the right to seek the last rounds and who knows if there is a Champions League final.
Sevilla has been a regular in the first continental competition in recent years. Seven times he has played the continental competition since it was released in 2006-2007, eight with which he will play next season with the aforementioned classification for quarterfinals three years ago as a historical milestone, something that had only been achieved once in the maximum continental competition, in 1958. On three other occasions, the Nervionenses reached the round of 16, a step in which they were eliminated by Fenerbahçe, CSKA and Leicester.
Last night's victory It will allow the Nervión team to enter Pot 1 of the draw, which in principle should be held on October 1. Sevilla, in any case, would have safely entered number 2 due to their privileged UEFA classification, as the continental victories this season have allowed them to rise again to 8th place in the ranking by beating Manchester United, with which it is tied at a coefficient (100,000) and Liverpool. Two English mastodons that he has defeated (the Red Devils more than once) and that confirm, if he was not already, the miracle of the Sánchez Pizjuán club during the last 15 years.