He Elche it closed the summer market on Monday, after a last day of frenzied activity, with a total of 13 additions to its squad for this season, six of them from Argentina.
The Elche coaching staff had less time than the rest of the clubs to renew their squad, since until last August 23 they did not know in which category their team would compete.
The club has opted for the national market and, above all, the Argentine market to remodel its wardrobe. The club owner and football agent, Christian bragarnik, and the coach Jorge Almiron, They have gone to the football they know best to try to give a high quality in the squad.
The renewal of the squad has affected all the lines of the team, since only ten of the players who achieved promotion to the highest category will continue in the group a month and a half ago.
The six Argentine signings are defender Juan Sánchez Miño, striker Lucas Boyé, goalkeeper Diego Matías ‘Russian’ Rodríguez, striker Guido Carrillo, midfielder Iván Marcone and winger Emiliano Rigoni.
Luismi Sánchez, Miguel Ángel Garrido 'Cifu', Tete Morente, Alberto Barragán, and Raúl Guti, the great bet of the entity in this market, since he paid five million euros for his transfer to Zaragoza, are the reinforcements that come from football Spanish.
Completing the transfer list are two players unknown to the general public in Spain but with great projection, such as the Colombian Jeison Lucumí and the French, on loan from Olympique Lyon, Youssouf Koné.
The rush to make the squad has conditioned Elche, which on the last market day managed to complete six operations, four arrivals and the departures of Ramón Folch and Nacho Pastor, on loan to Tenerife and Lorca, respectively.
The club from Elche, which had the lowest salary limit of First-class teams, leaves two chips free in case it were necessary to retouch the squad in the next winter market.