Antonio
Cord, general sports director of the Real
Betis, has confirmed this Tuesday night that Aitor
Ruibal, on loan last season at Leganés, will remain in the first team after having convinced Manuel Pellegrini during the preseason. “Aitor Ruibal already has a first-team number and he will stay this season … unless a super-million dollar offer arrives,” he said during an interview on RTV Betis. Aitor Ruibal has been playing all preseason with the '34' and already has one of the 25 numbers of the first team.
The Verdiblanco sports director has influenced the idea, already expressed days ago, that the best signing of this summer “would be to keep all the players we have”, since he considers that Betis has “a magnificent squad and we would have to spend a lot of money to to be able to improve it ”, although he does not rule out that there may be movements if a player comes out, since“ nobody is non-transferable ”.
Three experienced signings that will bring competitiveness
Cordón thinks that the three signings made to date -Claudio Bravo, Martín Montoya and Víctor Ruiz- are “three experienced players who improve the competitiveness of the squad” and he does not expect that in general there will be many movements in the market “until the last ten days, when the first calls are known and the coaches ask for players to be removed ”.
Cordón considers that the arrival of Pellegrini and the signings made to date “will help awaken this giant that is Betis”, although he made it clear that the club cannot get involved this summer in important investments, because even if they have a series of players and young values detected, “we do not have the economic capacity” to sign them, so he trusts that “the long-awaited young value that people expect can come out of the quarry”. “There are players who can surprise us and make the leap to the first team,” he indicated.