The situation is rare and unique. Unlike many clubs, which fear starting the next preseason with an insufficient number of professionals in their ranks to prepare for the league career, Espanyol currently has won and even exceeds 25 chips available for the first team, which is joined by the strict economic control of LaLiga due to COVID-19, which is exceeded by parrots. In the club they are clear: despite the fact that it is the staff of the solvent promotion, there will be yes or yes exits. Nothing that departs, in a way, from other seasons.
No Espanyol player is free this June 30, either because his contract was already longer or because it was automatically renewed, by number of matches in the case of Diego Lopez and by a mandatory purchase clause if they were promoted to First, as has happened to Nany Dimata, Miguelón Llambrich and Álvaro Vadillo. But that is not all: Pol Lozano, Óscar Gil and Nico Melamed, who this season in Segunda have performed with subsidiary numbers, tothey will also acquire a professional file. Y also They will, because that is how their contract stipulated, Joan García and Ricard Pujol, in the case of the central, as advanced by ‘La Grada’. All of them are joined by the return, on paper, of two loans: Víctor Gómez and Moha Ezzarfani, both in the Mirandés.
However, today they are 27 footballers with a first team contract that they should start the 2021-22 preseason under the orders of Vicente Moreno, who made some decisions in this regard in his long meeting on Monday, May 31, together with the sports director, Francisco Joaquín Pérez Rufete, and the technical secretary, Domingo Catoira.. In many of the cases the solution that is handled is a loan out, What Victor Gomez or Alvaro Vadillo. In others, and although the club does not urgently need it, a sale would be contemplated if the offer that arrived was succulent.
As of today, 27 players should start the preseason
It is in the latter case, rather than due to the release of numbers due to the entry of a transfer, is how Espanyol could face a signing, given that its balance is negative against LaLiga, a fact that the capital increase of 38 million euros proposed by Chen Yansheng will alleviate but not solve. Anyway, it is not a situation alien to the world of football. As the Perico CEO himself, José María Durán, warned this past Tuesday, “Other clubs may have jumped into the pool.” Summer will be long, but this chess game has already started.