Strengthening the rear center of Real Sociedad has become a central issue. With or without Diego Llorente's departure, the sporting direction of the Donostia club considers priority to strengthen that position to face a season full of matches in the five competitions in which it will take part. More if you take into account that in this campaign that has just ended, there has been a clear central deficit and Igor Zubeldia has had to be used as a fire extinguisher on more than one occasion.
For Imanol Alguacil it is a priority issue, a central issue in the planning for the next season, and this has been reported to Roberto Olabe, whose situation diagnosis is similar. Real Sociedad is determined to reinforce its staff with a central of immediate guarantees, who have leadership skills, experience and character. And you plan to do it regardless of whether or not Diego Llorente comes out this summer, who has a market and may be thinking of taking another leap in his sports career. The Oriotarra wants him in the squad, because he is a defender very much to his liking; and also wants to strengthen the team with a central room that complements the other three he has on staff: Llorente himself, Aritz Elustondo and Robin Le Normand. And if you can also play in the left-handed profile of the realistic back, much better, because Real has had problems with that position throughout the season; even if Le Normand has credited enough solvency to act as a left-handed central defender.
In that sense, a player who liked a lot to reinforce the defense, Leandro Cabrera, you may have to start discard it, because the latest news coming from Portugal is that it would already be closed a pre-agreement with Benfica, in the absence of an economic understanding between the Portuguese club and Espanyol, which in January paid nine million euros for it. From there, the center that he likes the most to reinforce the bailiff of Sheriff is Mario Hermoso, defender of Atlético de Madrid, as reported by Noticias de Gipuzkoa. Real was already behind him when he played on loan at Real Valladolid and Espanyol for Real Madrid, and his interest is still open, because he is a player that he really likes at Real's offices. Although it is true that it is a complicated signing by the entity of the club to which it belongs. Ideally, it should come in the form of a loan, but in any case we would have to wait for the mattress club to finish its participation in the champions now in August.
There are also good reports for Fernando Calero, for which last summer conversations were already established with Valladolid, but ended up signing for Espanyol, and this year with his descent, the arrival door of this Valladolid defender can be opened. There are good reports from Calero in the realistic club, but the problem is that his season has not been good, with Europe for parakeets included.
These are some of the options that are handled in the Anoeta office, but they are not the only ones, there are other alternatives from other foreign markets, European and South American, in which they work at the Real, because it is an important signing to conscientiously reinforce his defense, without neglecting the presence in the subsidiary of the promising Pacheco, who already debuted in the First Division, and Arambarri, who is usually in first team training.