Espanyol, Almería and Mallorca, on the hunt for Michael Santos

Espanyol, Almería and Mallorca bid for Michael Santos, a 27-year-old Uruguayan striker who has a contract until 2023 with FC Copenhagen but with extensive experience in the Spanish league: he played 30 games in the First League with Leganés and Málaga in which he scored four goals and 38 with Sporting in Second, where he scored 17 goals. This season he has played 26 games for the Danish club and has scored seven goals.

The player wants to break his tie at least this season with FC Copenhagen. Santos would arrive on loan for one season with a mandatory purchase option of 1.2 million euros, and the entity that finally signed him would have to pay one hundred percent of the token. All things being equal, Espanyol is the one with the most capacity taking into account its salary limit, that he will be the oldest in Second, although for this he must continue to give out his highest salaries.

Santos acts as a forward and occupies an extra-community place, so his arrival at Espanyol, in case it is finally the destination, would cause the loan of Matías Vargas, a player who this preseason has counted for Vicente Moreno but has not made it into the line-ups. Keidi Bare, the Málaga midfielder with whom there is an agreement, is Albanian, but according to sources consulted, he has Greek nationality and would be a Community.

Santos became known in River de Montevideo, where he played 105 games, scored 51 goals and gave 22 assists, a real outrage that led him to play two games with the national team. He arrived in Europe in 2016-17, specifically Malaga, but from then on he made assignments to Leganés and Sporting, where in the Second Division he achieved his best campaign by scoring 17 goals. After a year in Denmark, he now wants to return to Spain.

His arrival would also raise the doubt that continues to exist with the continuity of Raúl de Tomás, taking into account that Vicente Moreno's squad would already have other players to act at the top of the attack.