Second-class clubs spend € 32M and revenues fall to € 68M

The most atypical market in history – a pandemic by means of – closed with data that contrasts sharply with those of last summer. Second-tier clubs have spent 32.1 million euros and revenues have fallen to 68.1 million €, figures lower than a year ago. At that time, the teams invested a little more in strengthening themselves (€ 37.5M) and pocketed almost double in sales (€ 106.4M). One more symptom of the looming crisis.

Who does not glimpse it at all is the Almería of Sheikh Al Sheikh. Hence, one more summer, it has turned the market upside down. It is the club that has spent the most money on transfers (€ 22.05M) and in its ranks is the most expensive in Second, the Nigerian striker Sadiq, for whom he has had to pay five million to Partizan, with four more variables. However, the Almeria entity has also become the one that has collected the most, after the juicy sale of Darwin to Benfica (€ 25M).

That economic power contrasts with the austerity of many clubs, who have opted for the eternal formula of transfer or signing free players. Within that profile we find Sporting leader and two of the teams in the playoffs, Ponferradina and Rayo. In addition to Oviedo, Lugo, Logroñés, Albacete and Sabadell. Neither income nor expenses, but striking signings such as Saúl García, Curro Sánchez, Luca Zidane, El Hacen or Diamanka, among others.

The set with the highest of the category is a newcomer, with the rise between eyebrows. Leganés has been unleashed and has undertaken a revolution that goes through 15 signings, four players who will continue after returning from a loan and another four, who come up from the subsidiary. Nothing more and nothing less than 23 new registrations – Almería and Malaga follow with 21 incorporations – in which 3.5 million euros have been invested. On the other hand, Sporting, Espanyol, Mallorca and Rayo are the ones with the least number of reinforcements.

In the Operation Exit took the cake the Malaga, which has said goodbye to 23 players for different reasons. And it is that beyond the transfers of Álex Mula (Fuenlabrada, € 1.1M), Tete Morente (Elche, € 375,000), Keidi Bare (Espanyol, € 2M) and Iván Jaime (Famalicão, € 500,000), the entity's ERE has led to the dismissal by Renato Santos, Diego González, Boulahroud, Rolón, Juanpi, Pacheco, Cecchini and Luis Hernández. At the other extreme, the most continuous squads are Sporting and Albacete, with only eight gears.

On the last market day, 41 operations were made

The last 24 hours of the market were frantic in the Segunda clubs, which carried out 25 signings and 16 casualties. Up to 18 teams (Zaragoza, Albacete, Girona, Rayo, Cartagena, Ponferradina, Almería, Mirandés, Tenerife, Castellón, Mallorca, Leganés, Espanyol, Alcorcón, Las Palmas, Sabadell, Logroñés and Málaga) were involved in some operation throughout that last day. The most active were Rayo and Girona, with five and six movements respectively, although Cartagena, Almería and Mallorca, with four, lagged behind.

Zaragoza opened the day by announcing the signing of Tejero, on loan from Eibar. He was not the only Primera that gave some cash to the silver category. Ramón Folch landed in Tenerife from Elche and Ndiaye, in Mallorca from Getafe. While Vadillo changed Celta for Espanyol and Arturo Molina, Levante for Castellón. What's more, the airlift It also worked the other way around and Girona pocketed 200,000 euros with Jairo's loan to Cádiz. Further, Osasuna and Mallorca exchanged pieces: Carmona for Budimir. Málaga put an end to this day with the incorporation of Joaquín Muñoz, from Huesca.