Málaga only have 18 professional chips due to the penalty imposed by LaLiga for exceeding the salary limit last season. The squad has been necessarily short and the club has not been able to count on all the troops that it would like to have with the first team's number. Even so, Sergio Pellicer's pulse is not trembling when looking down and expanding his wardrobe with players from the quarry.
In fact, and although it may be paradoxical, Málaga is the team that has had the greatest number of footballers in the first ten days together with Girona. Pellicer and Francisco have used a total of 29 footballers in the ten disputed appointments so far (nine in the case of the Catalan team). And that one of his most outstanding reinforcements, the Malaga winger Joaquín Muñoz, has not yet made his debut at Malaga.
The other 17 that have a professional record have had minutes plus the former Tete Morente, Boulahroud and Rolón. To them must be added the presence on the pitch in a match of up to nine players with team numbers: Ismael Casas, Ramón Enríquez, Larrubia, Hicham, Ale Benítez, Julio, Juan Cruz, Issa Fomba and Cristo, the last to premiere this season. The left-handed side of the quarry played his first minutes of the course last Monday against Espanyol.
Francisco is also moving the tree in search of solutions and giving opportunities to players in the lower categories. This Wednesday against Zaragoza, three homegrown players were released: Terrats, Ariel Sánchez and Monjonell. No other second team has used as many players as the blue and white and the red and white. Those who are closest to them are Mallorca and Leganés, who have given minutes to 27 players in this initial stretch of the championship. Those who have used the least so far have been Alcorcón (21), Tenerife (22) and Fuenlabrada (22).
If Joaquín Muñoz, who has entered Sergio Pellicer's list, makes his debut this Sunday in Sabadell, Málaga will be the leader of this classification with 30 players … unless Girona does the same.
