Rayo Vallecano has closed the market with a positive economic balance, after KAS Eupen has exercised the compulsory purchase option that it had for Jordi Amat. The franjirrojo club has received just over a million euros for the central, who left on loan to the Belgian team – led by the Spanish Beñat San José – in the summer of 2019.
That money has been the only income as such of the entity, which has opted for an austere transfer policy. Three of his four reinforcements have been transfers (Fran García from Real Madrid Castilla, Antoñín from Granada and Iván Martos from Almería) and the other remaining, a free player (Luca Zidane had ended his contract with Madrid). While is true that, in the cases of the two left sides, the Ray has a purchase option.
Regarding the transfers of Abdoulaye Ba and Sergio Benito, to Dinamo Bucharest and Valladolid respectively, Rayo it has future percentages and a series of signed conditions. In fact, the same franjirrojo club already made public that a buyback option was kept for the forward during the first year. The case of Sergio Moreno is different, since he left on loan to the Mirandés.
Austerity in times of crisis
As AS has learned, the austerity policy in this transfer market responds to the crisis derived from the coronavirus. And is that El Rayo has an estimated loss of three million euros in terms of stadium operation. That would be the money that the Vallecano club will stop receiving for tickets, lockers … An amount that represents between 25-30% of your budget in Second Division.