It was being a constant every season of the last decade, with the sole exception of the 2014-15 academic year, that Espanyol be left without their top scorers. Without his 'nine'. Or, directly, without the idol of the hobby. Since Raúl Tamudo, who went free in the summer of 2010, until Borja Iglesias, transferred a year ago, and with the more than likely the departure of Raúl de Tomás, the parakeet club has gone playing with goal, which is the fire of soccer, until it burns. And the situation will be the same or more critical in Second.
Until 89.6 million have landed in the coffers of the RCDE Stadium for the sale of strikers since 2010: the 28 of Borja Iglesias, 20 for Gerard Moreno16 by Dani Osvaldo or 5.8 per Leo Baptistao, as the largest. But many others have come out for an almost symbolic amount – the three million per Cristhian Stuani or the 2.5 for Felipe Caicedo– or directly for free: your own case Tamudo, Iván Alonso, Ferran Corominas, Jhon Córdoba or Sergio García, just to name a few of the most significant.
In the end, 26 center forwards have left Espanyol in the last decade, either because the business was convenient for the club, for the player (it would be necessary to study why most footballers last so little in Cornellà), because they ended their contract or assignment, or because of poor performance. Like Jonathan Calleri and Facundo Ferreyra, the latest confirmed departures, who will most likely join De Tomás, while Javi Puado (on loan to Zaragoza) is not sure that he will return. Thus, today only the first team has Wu Lei and Víctor Campuzano (intended, by the way, by some Second) as 'nines'.
And although Gabriel 'Toro' Fernández sounds loudCeltic a single signing will not be sufficient at all for a category in which the goal marks the meager differences between promotion and the fight for permanence. Especially in the case of an Espanyol who, with all the arsenal he supposedly had, comes from scoring 27 goals in 38 days in Primera. Of burning, therefore, playing with the goal.