Extremadura changes hands

Extremadura UD will change ownership to save the situation that has kept the Extremadura club hanging by a thread for months. At the end of a meeting with the President of the Extremadura Board that took place this Wednesday in Mérida, Daniel Moreno, Javier Páez’s partner, visible heads of the new project, confirmed to Canal microphones Extremadura TV that are the new owners of the Almendralejo club confirming the preliminary agreement reached with the still president Manuel Franganillo. Moreno also pointed out that the entry of his group into the Almendralejo club would be with all the shares, acquiring 100% of the package that Franganillo owned until now.

The new investment group is now seeking the support of local and regional institutions, in order to unblock the pending subsidies that should reach the club once the pending payments with the Treasury and Social Security are settled. The new owners will also meet with the mayor of Almendralejo, Jose María Ramírez Morán, to publicize the new project.

The most immediate thing now will be to maintain a new contact with the bankruptcy administrator, Bernardo Silva, and the Commercial Judge of Badajoz who is handling the case, to inform them of his arrival at the club and of his intention to give him the necessary stability. depositing on the table the money necessary to unblock the current institutional situation.

In sports, and with a view to the Barça team’s visit to Bilbao on the next league match, the arrival of footballers is expected to come to fill the deficiencies that the Manuel Mosquera squad currently has after the massive departures that have occurred in recent weeks, and that have left the team with only two players from those who started the season. These new players, along with the youngsters from the branch who already have a first-team record, would be in charge of defending the Almendralejense team shirt until the end of the season.