Espanyol will start the 2020-21 preseason tomorrow, Monday, a highly demanding course in the Second Division with the imperative challenge of achieving promotion. There's no more.
After the usual toll of medical check-ups, more necessary than ever due to the scourge of Covid-19, the blue and white they will put on their overalls again to prepare for their premiere in LaLiga Smartmark, scheduled for the weekend of September 12-13.
And except for surprise, Espanyol work will start with a single new face in its ranks, that of coach Vicente Moreno, although next week there could be news in the form of reinforcements.
The rest, the same ones that finished the infamous 2019-20 League, except Ferreyra, Calleri, Iturraspe, Naldo and Corchia. A staff with which the new parakeet technician will work as of next week, but which could undergo many changes in the busy month that lies ahead. Logical since it is expected that several of the players with suitors (From Tomás, Cabrera, Marc Roca, Darder) do not follow blue and white.
The booster tap, about to activate
While the tap of the reinforcements could be opened already this week, well It is urgent that Vicente Moreno start counting soon with a block with a face and eyes to prepare with guarantees the career in Second. Touch move tiles.
The first two midfielders. Fran Mérida (free of Osasuna) and Keidi Bare (Málaga) could be Espanyol players in the coming days, except for an unexpected setback, as the only thing missing was the coach's approval to finish closing operations to reinforce the core.
By Mérida Leganés would also have been interested in the last hours, but the operation with the former Osasuna is well on track and sooner rather than later, his incorporation will be announced.
Keidi Bare has a contract with Malaga that rates his departure in about two million euros, with some fringes still to be polished in order to reach a total entente.
The forward is another of the lines that urgently needs to be reinforced, especially because the lack of a goal has been one of the great burdens of the past year, one of the great culprits of the Espanyolista shipwreck. He ‘Toro’ Fernández, striker for Celta that has sounded for Espanyol, he will not start the preseason with his team on Wednesday, hence the possibility that he will end up on loan to Cornellà-El Prat gains strength. A pair of forwards must be tied.