Manolo Gaspar has a cut: 11 players finish contract

The Malaga 2021-22 project is already underway. The sports management led by Manolo Gaspar has been working and planning for months in search of interesting options both in sports and economics, where the club will have to tighten the belt a lot again because, a priori, the scenario that is being considered at La Rosaleda it's only slightly better than this season. The salary limit will grow but not too much and the number of professional chips will also increase available (these last two courses have been 18).

Amen to dive into the market, where Malaga has a few well-positioned operations, Manolo Gaspar and his team also have a cut in the current squad. And it is that a total of 11 footballers and the coach, Sergio Pellicer, they end their relationship with the Martiricos entity on June 30.

The 11 players who finish their contract in just over a month They are Scepovic, Chavarría, Orlando Sá and those on loan Caye Quintana, Matos, Jozabed, Cristian Rodríguez, Yanis Rahmani, Juan Soriano, Joaquín Muñoz and Mejías.

The assessment that the club currently has on these eleven players are very different. There are players who do not fit into the future project like Orlando Sá, who except for a radical turn of events in the coming weeks will not continue. The performance of other members of the squad such as Yanis or Jozabed does generate a high degree of satisfaction in the offices and the club is already working to try to achieve their renewals.

Yanis and Jozabed, priorities

The winger and the midfielder lead the ranking of priorities with a view to the next exercise, although we must not rule out, much less, the continuity in the project of players such as Caye, Cristian Rodríguez or Joaquín Muñoz, whose future will depend on their clubs of origin and how the market evolves. Scepovic and Chavarría they also have options to stay.

Malaga has a purchase option for Yanis of one million euros that the club cannot undertake in any way due to lack of liquidity. On the other hand, they are working on alternative formulas in order to ensure that one of the pillars of the current workforce continues at La Rosaleda. Almería, owner of their rights, and Yanis himself, with whose agents Gaspar has already met, know Málaga's intentions to continue counting on the footballer in the future.

Jozabed's case seems, from the outset, more accessible. Málaga kept a mandatory purchase option in the event of a promotion of half a million euros. But there will be no promotion except a miracle and the midfielder has an agreement with Celta to leave the Galician club at the end of this season. That partly paves the way and Malaga is determined to fight to sign a new contract with the footballer and ensure his presence in next season's team. Contacts have already been initiated.

The bench is the starting point

In relation to the movements with players who do not currently belong to the Blue and White discipline, Manolo Gaspar intends to tie the technician first before launching himself to close operations in the market. The sports director wants to design the project hand in hand with his coach and for this it is necessary to first know if it will be Pellicer or if Nules's finally declines the renewal (he has a proposal on the table for several weeks). The tenant of the bench must be the starting point of the future project.

The role of the youth squad

The role that the homegrown players are going to play in the team for next year is also yet to be defined. Players like Hicham, Ramón, Ismael Casas, Cristo, Ale Benítez, Quintana, Larrubia, Loren Zúñiga, Haitam or Julio They have a contract with the Blue and White club for next season.