Official: Leganés sign Gaku and reunites him with Martí again

He Leganes has made official this morning the signing of Gaku shibasaki (28 years) until 2023. The Japanese midfielder, the first Japanese footballer in the club's history, reaches Butarque coming from Deportivo de la Coruña in a transfer that now will not report any income to the Galicians. He Lega will pay to Depor depending on the personal and collective objectives that you achieve Gaku the next season.

The footballer will be presented next Monday and his number has not been revealed for now. Yesterday already passed by Butarque, where the club recorded a video of him introducing himself to the cucumber fans. “Hello Leganés, I'm here,” greeted the international on Twitter, where the Leganes He has joked from the first hour with Japanese references to feed the expectation for the signing, already discounted since yesterday. This morning Gaku He has also been at the Butarque Sports Facility.

His signing will have direct consequences on the current squad configuration in the form of departures. First, because being from outside the EU, it will occupy one of the two places that The league in Second and that they were already taken by Facu García and Josua Mejías. The first one is having minutes with Marti and it seems the coach is counting on him, though Gaku I would compete in a position similar to yours. Mejías it was released yesterday in preseason and competes for a position, that of central, in which there are already five players.

Gaku, the coach and Martí

As AS reported on Wednesday, the agreement was closed and its arrival in Leganes it was a matter of hours. The footballer traveled yesterday afternoon to Madrid and to pass a medical examination he just landed in Playing cards.

The national coach of Japan, Hajime moriyasu has been key in his departure from Riazor. Gaku I wanted to continue in Coruña, but the technician warned him that, if he competed next season in Second BIt would be difficult to join the Japanese team, in which he is captain. This warning changed the thinking of Gaku, who will now place himself under the command of the coach who brought him to Spain.

Martí and Shibasaki coincided from January to June 2017, when the Mallorcan coach signed him for the Tenerife behind the Club World Cup in which Gaku shone in front of Real Madrid. In the islands he offered an excellent version (16 games, two goals) that helped the Tenerife to play the promotion play-offs.

Irregular performance in Coruña

He Getafe prevented the chicharreros from returning to First. Precisely the azulones signed Gaku for two seasons. In the first he played regularly, but in the second he did not count for Bordalás. He Sports signed him a year ago, but Anchor it and Luis César Sampedro they did not count on him. Fernando Vazquez It did give it continuity, but it was insufficient for it to contribute more to the finally unfinished goal of achieving salvation.