Espanyol's purgatory

The Spanish in the equator among its most immediate past, the one who enjoyed for 26 uninterrupted years, and the beginning of the future that awaits you, according to your purposes for a short time, in second. Between the end of the last League, on July 19 against the Celtic and the start of a new preseason, which is estimated –although not closed– to start on the August 12, approximately.

That equator, however, it has not been accompanied by a cascade of novelties, ups and downs, as was presumed. Or as promised the sports director himself, Francisco Joaquín Pérez Rufete, last July 18 when he was still a coach. “Next week is going to be very intense for a lot of things. “That week passed, and the current one is about to end, with a silence it could only break the ad for Vicente Moreno as a new technician, who one day seems done and the next, broken. Neither one nor the other.

Live the club in a real purgatory, with the desire – from the entity it is pointed out that this will be the case – that the movements of market succeed if Moreno signs. “He mister it is very important for the project and for the start of next season “, Rufete also indicated in that previous appearance at Espanyol-Celta (0-0), as if hinting thatupon arrival would confirm operations verbally agreed.

Can be the case of Keidi Bare, Málaga, and Fran Mérida, who already said goodbye to Osasuna after the contract ended. And also to start facing and listening the interest of other clubs in their own players, as long as these are translated into formal offers. Like that of Benfica by Leandro Goatherd. Or the one who wakes up Marc Roca in clubs in half Europe for its projection.

The 2020-21 season in the meantime it's cooking indoors, with the only announcement of three renovations, which was not produced with hype and cymbal, not even with a pompous statement, but rather in passing at the press conference of the last July 21 between Rufete, the general director, José María Durán, and the deputy general director, Mao Ye Wu. With the small mouth it was confirmed, and only because they were asked, that Javi López and Diego López had extended their contracts one more year, for two from Dídac Vilà. Another thing is that the three will continue.

On that preseason which is just around the corner not much is known either. Surely, more for the pandemic context and for a Second Division whose start date is not even 100% known (on paper, September 12) than for lack of planning. If the team will move out of Barcelona or if it will carry out all the work in the Sports City, as sanitary conditions can recommend, is today a uncertainty that Espanyol shares with any club.

So that, only the appointment of Vicente Moreno can evaporate this purgatory, surrounded by mounting criticism and devoid of exciting stimuli, which the parakeet club has become. Now we just need to solve whether or not the path leads you to a testimonial step through Second Hell and a quick return to the 'sky' of the First division. This will take time. And patience, for sure.