One Sunday afternoon, right at the end of the first week of training and before traveling to the Tokyo Olympics, Espanyol has made official the renewal of Javi Puado until 2025 with an increase in the card that places him at the top with the highest paid players in the squad. News that the club had been waiting for since the previous week due to the goodwill of the footballer.
Puado, 23, ended his contract in 2022 and the sports management did not want to turn this renewal into a “soap opera”, which is why it has valued the forward after the great season he has made in LaLiga SmartBank and that is why the renewal is not It has been delayed, taking into account Puado wanted to continue at Espanyol to be able to consolidate in the First Division. Its representatives traveled to Barcelona on Friday to close the operation after several weeks of negotiations. “All love stories have a happy ending. See you at the RCDE Stadium,” said the player.
In a market stopped by the consequences of the pandemic and especially in Espanyol due to its overflowing salary limit, the renewal of Puado is the first big news of the summer for the perico club, that he will be able to ensure, if there are no setbacks, his four best attacking players of the past year, such as Raúl de Tomás, Adrián Embarba, Javi Puado and Nico Melamed. Next week other movements will begin to lighten this limit.
The Espanyol forward will begin his fourth season in the first team after a first in which he was riding with the subsidiary but spent his first minutes with Joan Francesc Rubi. With David Gallego, the coach barely had minutes and left on loan to Real Zaragoza, where he exploded until he returned to Espanyol in Second Division and was consecrated. Next season he will have the challenge of transferring his performance from Second to First.