Despite being going through a static, tame market start, waiting for some movement in LaLiga that shakes everything up, In Espanyol's technical area, the phones do ring. In the absence of room for maneuver to deal with transfers, most of these conversations are about the interest of other clubs in taking on loan to a parakeet footballer. In some cases, with a lot of persistence. But it arises a problem. The usual. The money.
In each of those calls, Espanyol finds that his interlocutor does not plan to assume all or a good part of the token of the intended player. And that is a severe handicap for the Perica entity, which with these loans not only intends that footballers who a priori would have a few minutes in First with Vicente Moreno, or leave some numbers free, but also lighten part of the wage bill which, to this day, is negative.
The paradigmatic case is Víctor Gómez, for whom Real Zaragoza –As well as other clubs– He has addressed the Espanyol sports area on several occasions the last few weeks though with the intention that Cornellà-El Prat continue to pay the emoluments on the right-hand side while playing on loan at La Romareda next season 2021-22.
And it's not the only one. More than half a dozen active parakeets are likely to be loaned, from the porters Angel Fortuño or Joan Garcia to Matías Vargas, passing by Álvaro Vadillo, Pol Lozano, Ricard Pujol or Moha Ezzarfani, who – like Gómez – has just returned from another assignment during the last season, both at Mirandés.
Another of the resources that Espanyol has left, if this lack of liquidity persists between the clubs that can ask them for players, it is only in some cases to agree imaginative formulas, in the style of which the Perica entity itself signed with Villarreal, Anderlecht and Celta, respectively, by Miguelón Llambrich, Nany Dimata and Óscar Vadillo: a mandatory purchase option in the event of meeting an achievable goal. The amount of this clause, obviously, would vary depending on the amortization of the player in question and its future value for Espanyol.