The failure of not being promoted to the First Division has a long list of consequences for Girona, which this season will no longer be the all-powerful team in the Smartbank League since the salary limit could go from 29 million to approximately half.
A decrease and a no promotion have not been enough for the property to stop trusting Girona's sports director Quique Cárcel. The Catalan will once again be in charge of designing the project and remodeling the squad of the Girona team, in which it is probably the most complicated challenge he will have in recent years.
Going down from First to Second is always a hard blow, but the compensation fund allowed Girona to make an even better squad, by names, than the one that had dropped.
A new reality
Now the situation is different and the club, Cárcel and Francisco, who will continue to be the coach, must adapt to the new reality. The salary limit, which this season has been 29 million, could fall, according to speculation, to a total of 14-15, far from the 48 that Espanyol will have, for example. The exit door has already been opened and after the departure of all the loaders, which in the event of promotion Girona had to buy, offers will begin to arrive to sign the heavyweights. The continuity of Stuani seems practically impossible, although the way in which he ended up, expelled, and the situation in the world today could make these minimal options grow a little. Aday, Granell, Borja García or Juanpe, footballers who have been in Montilivi for many years and still have a poster, could also leave Girona and thus release a salary mass.
Uncertainty flies over Girona right now, waiting for Quique Cárcel to give his pertinent explanations this week at a press conference, however, there are some things already advanced. The first of the sales is that of Choco Lozano, who with the rise of Cádiz became a new player of the Cadiz players for 2.5 million. Bono and Bernardo, on loan this season, could be the next to leave money in the box and facilitate new hires.
A different profile as incorporations
The new reality of Girona means that the profile of the footballers who come, the majority at least, will not be that of a priori top players as happened last season with Samu Saiz or Gallar. Young players with ambition and desire to achieve great things will be the new profile that Jail will seek to fill this starving squad. Àlex Corredera, a Barça youth player and currently a Badajoz footballer, is one of those who is interested in contributing his quality and vision of the game to the center of the field, but first it seems that they will have to leave so that they can start to enter.