The choice of Manolo Gaspar for the Málaga bench is José Alberto López. The sports director has the conversations well under way with the Mirandés coach, whom he has been following in recent seasons and about whom considers that he fits perfectly with the profile he is looking for for Málaga. A coach “with energy, with desire, without fear,” Gaspar himself detailed in Pellicer's farewell press conference.
The excellent season that the Asturian coach has starred in at the head of Mirandés has finished convincing the Blue and White sports director that since he learned that Pellicer would not continue in Martiricos he launched himself for his signing. The harmony between the parts is very good and José Alberto continues to drag his current club regarding the renewal offer that you have on the table. Sources familiar with the negotiation consulted by AS affirm that the chances of the Oviedo coach landing on the bench at La Rosaleda are high.
His good work for years in the Mareo quarry, one of the most prolific soccer players' nurseries in Spanish football, are a very important point in their favor, taking into account the leading role played by the youth squad in current Málaga. Y José Alberto has shown very good skills managing and releasing many players from the house in his journey in the first team of Sporting de Gijón.
This season at Mirandés they have had the youngest Second Division squad and it has been able to get an optimal performance from a team with a high number of loaned players and in which many of its players have grown exponentially and have been revalued.
All these aspects play a decisive role in the choice of Manolo Gaspar, who is clear that José Alberto is the ideal coach to give continuity to the project and the good work that Pellicer has done in this year and a half.