The transfer market closed a little over a month ago and it did so with downward figures due to the COVID pandemic. Last season the summer market closed with 1,300 million euros in spending, while this year it was around 410. The teams have hardly been able to strengthen themselves like other summers. But even so, there are signings that are still unpublished in official competitions.
The most expensive of all and that it is still not released it's Idrissi, the striker signed by Monchi on the last market day. Lopetegui still has not given him minutes basically because he arrived injured. Another is Matheus Fernandes, for whom Barcelona paid 7 million euros. Koeman does not count on him and has shown it. An unknown for the Blaugrana parish. Grbic's face has not been seen either in the Metropolitan in official match. The goalkeeper has arrived to be the replacement for Oblak, but has not yet had the opportunity to demonstrate his security under the sticks. Atlético paid 3.5 million.
From the Atlético subsidiary heading to Getafe Dario Póveda put, which still hasn't debuted. Although the rojiblanco youth squad just got out of a long-term injury. In Valladolid Sergio still has not given him the opportunity to show off Jot, on loan from Benfica; the same thing happens with Bobby adekanye in Cádiz, on loan from Lazio. In Elche, Almirón has pending to give minutes to a compatriot of his, Diego Rodriguez, from Defense, and who does not know what it is to wear the coat of the Elche team.
Seven players who have not yet had a chance with their respective teams, but less than last year. More than a month and a half after the market closed, there were still 20 signings to debut in the 19-20. This season the figure has been reduced for two reasons: there have been fewer incorporations due to the crisis and the calendar is more saturated with matches, forcing coaches to rotate in your lineups to keep your footballers cool and avoid injuries.
Fourteen players who returned from loan, also without minutes
The clubs during the last market have had to bet on the continuity of many players, sign at low cost, the opportunity for homegrown players, bring back loaned players … But there has also been the circumstance that players who had been on loan to other teams and in the summer they returned they could not find a new team, despite the fact that the club tried to place them by not having them. And they are up to 14 loaned players who have returned and have not had minutes.
An example of this is Gnagnom, from Sevilla. He has been apart and training on the sidelines throughout the league start, you tried to find a team and failed. Alone It seems now, a month after the market close, that it could count for Lopetegui, since during the national team break he has returned to training with his teammates. In a similar situation is Aleix Vidal in Nervión. He returned from loan and Monchi did not find another club for him. Although there are also cases in which the club decided to recover a player and he has on the bench for an emergency. This is the case of Lunin, Real Madrid goalkeeper, who with the departure of Areola becomes Concha Espina's second goalkeeper in case Zidane decides or needs to give Courtois a break.
Other players who returned from loan and have not yet played a minute in official competition are Dani raba (Villarreal), Nolaskoain (Athletic), Brandom (Osasuna), Doukouré (I raised), Camarasa (Betis), Jose Antonio Martinez Y Roberto Olabe (Eibar), Sivera Y Burgui (Alavés) and David Costas (Celtic). Only Granada, Huesca and Valencia do not have any players who have signed (Ches have not bought from anyone in this market) or recovered from a loan that is not debuting in the league.