Morlanes, from Villarreal, will reinforce the engine room of Almería

Manu Morlanes will join the Almería discipline in the next few hours at the José Gomes concentration in Malaga. The midfielder, the Almeria entity and Villarreal have reached an agreement in the absence of the last minute fringes, by which the Zaragoza midfielder will play this season with the Almería elastic, occupying the gap of Vada. The Argentine, with a contract until 2024, remains separated with Enzo (2021), both exercising with the Almeria subsidiary in the Vega de Acá field.

One of the aspects that remains to be closed in the operation is the condition in which the Villarreal youth squad will arrive. The three parties are considering two scenarios: a loan to the Mediterranean Games Stadium, saving the indales a purchase option. Of course, the yellow box could buy it back for an amount higher than that paid by Almería. The second is a transfer, with that Villarreal buyback option, which, in any case, will be able to recover it in both scenarios.

The footballer had it practically done with Leganés last Friday, although Almería has bet hard this weekend, lifting the operation to the cucumber club, which offered worse conditions than those of Almería, propping up an engine room in which De la Hoz, Petrovic and Aguza are already present, although the continuity of the last is not insured.

Morlanes landed in 2012 at Villarreal, when he was just thirteen years old. In the 17-18 academic year, he already entered the plans of the first team, although it was not until last year when he became a full member of the first team, with which he debuted on December 7, 2017 as a starter in a match of the group stage against Maccabi Tel Aviv (defeat 0-1). A regular in the national team, he made his debut in the First Division on August 18, 2018 in a Villarreal 1-2 Real Sociedad (that year he participated in the 8-0 at Almería). Last season he only played thirteen games, seven of them as a starter.