The economic straits of the UD, those to which the island entity is forced after the waste of the summer of 2018, when it wanted to face a new assault on the First Division on the fast track, They force you to sign at zero cost. Assignments come into play there, which at least allow us to save time.
Y also minimize risks in the event that the operation, due to the player's performance, does not approach or arrive at what is expected. So, except In the cases of Rober and Sergio Ruiz, the other four assignments that Las Palmas faced last year, one more than others, were the opposite of what the club wanted. Thus, Silva, Cardona, Rafa Mujica and Pietro Iemmello went almost unnoticed.
The first two scared doubts from the beginning, producing like the most from the first moment. And that the club is not that it had them all with it, well Rober was little more than a beardless youth on loan from Betis and Sergio Ruiz was coming off a disappointing season with his hometown team, Racing Santander.. The winger from Mérida suffered in first person the devastating effects of COVID-19, becoming infected on the return trip from Mallorca on January 10. However, having started the season and finished it with the soul but limping allowed him to score 8 goals, including a triplet to Lugo, and give 3 assists. His statistics record 30 games, 36 from the start, for 2,066 minutes on the grass. An upward price and the need for Betis to test him in preseason they discard, except for a miracle, its continuity.
While, Sergio Ruiz happened to be, in his own eyes and strangers, one of the most decisive footballers in the category. The Cantabrian, untouchable in the double pivot, played 37 league games, 35 as a starter, with 3,091 minutes. He had time to score 5 goals and 6 assists and, above all, to demonstrate the need for the UD to extend its bond. It happens that it is On loan from the American Charlotte until December. However, and as Miguel Ángel Ramírez, president and maximum shareholder of Las Palmas recognized, until a few days ago the club had no evidence that the North American league was going to resume in January 2022, so the club's dispatches already they brood over its continuity at least until June of that year, that also has the permission of the footballer himself and his representative.
The other four loan operations undertaken by the Unión Deportiva are perfumed with scent of failure, since the entity can hardly extract anything positive from the participations of Jonathan Silva, Cardona, Rafa Mujica and, especially, Pietro Iemmello. Especially alarming was the performance of the Italian forward, personal bet of Luis Helguera, sports director. Barely played 12 games, 2 of them in Copa el Rey, competition in which he scored his only goal with the Las Palmas shirt, against the modest Varea, of the Third Division. In the league he barely intervened in 10 games, 4 as a starter, and he was denied facing the rival goal in the 401 minutes he had. Coming from Benevento, for the Italian forward there was a purchase option that not only is that Las Palmas did not execute, but also returned when playing in the winter market and not in June, when it was stipulated in his assignment contract. “The Italian thing was to cry,” says a direct witness to the work in Las Palmas.
Precisely, Las Palmas made a change of cards between Iemmello and Rafa Mujica, advanced by Diario AS. Little positive can be extracted from the return of the Gran Canaria striker to Las Palmas, in whose quarry he left a performance so high that he earned his pass to Barça. Now, in the professional squad, the Jesé-Araujo duo closed off any path, although he was able to play 13 games, 7 of them from the first minute. In 544 minutes he scored a goal in that 3-1 loss in Almería. Hope has not been lost with him, and the club negotiates a new loan agreement with Leeds.
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At the end of the season, Jonathan Silva and Tomás Cardona ended up as two strangers. The first of them He arrived on loan from Almería and for some moments, blurred in any case, he seemed to take the left lane. But his performance was declining: 12 games (10 as a starter) and 844 minutes. Obviously, Las Palmas was left without arguments to support the execution of the purchase clause that they handled in the offices.
More blushing was the case of Tomás Cardona, that came as a possible pillar for the axis of the rear. The minimal prominence he had came in the final stretch of the season when there was nothing at stake. Some physical problem, minor in any case, and his poor adaptation to European football undermined his performance in Gran Canaria. He had 10 games (8 as a starter) and 751 minutes at his disposal, but he offered nothing as endorsement for the UD to consider continuity which, via execution of the purchase option, was mandatory in case of having been promoted to the First Division or that the Argentine defender had played at least 25 games. Every cloud has a silver lining.
