The culprits of the parrot tragedy

Espanyol certified on Wednesday at the Camp Nou, their mathematical decline after 27 years in the First Division. It was not unexpected or a surprise for the parrot hobby, since many weeks ago they had assumed that tragedy was inevitable, that this year was not a miracle. Many years it has been on the brink of the abyss and in this atypical and horrifying course it was very difficult to avoid falling off.

And the wound is so deep and it produces so much pain in an always faithful fan that has seen them of all colors, that not even falling before the eternal rival further deepened the death wound.

(+) This was the disappointment of the parrot players at the end of the match at Camp Nou

There are many to blame for the disastrous season that has plunged Espanyol into the hell of Segunda. Many reasons and a chronicle of an announced death that began to forge many months, almost a year, since Rubi announced that she was leaving.

But what happened to finish in Second and seal the mathematical ticket even 10 days before the League ends? Many factors have influenced and we will try to break them down below.

1. BAD SPORTS PLANNING IN SUMMER

Espanyol faced an exciting course immersed in three competitions (League, Cup and Europa League) without having covered with minimum guarantees the departure of two of the pillars of the previous campaign when the pass for Europe was achieved. Mario Hermoso and Borja Iglesias left and their holes were vacant, since the relays who came nowhere near covered the hole left by the center and the battering ram. In the summer Matías Vargas, Calero, Iturraspe, Andrés Prieto, Caleri, Espinosa and Corchia arrived, and only the former Girona center-back has managed to start, the rest, without penalty or glory.

2. LITTLE CABINET FUND

As a consequence of the bad planning and not having reinforced themselves with criteria, the four coaches who have passed through the bench have had a very marked eleven type and few have trusted the bench, nor the youth squads. Hence, many of the headlines have come ‘melted’ to this final stretch, lowering their benefits and being the focus of criticism.

3. COACHES DANCE

Up to four coaches have passed through the parrot bench. Everything fell apart when Rubi said a year ago now that he was leaving Betis as he could not reject the Heliopolis club's succulent offer, although it also influenced that they did not give him what he asked to reinforce the squad before a demanding year. Maybe he was right … David Gallego started, followed by Pablo Machín and then Abelardo, who was stopped hours before receiving Real Madrid in a bizarre decision worthy of the annus horribilis, to end up taking the reins Rufete, the one who had designed the squad since summer with Pescar Perarnau.

4. LATE INVESTMENT IN JANUARY

In the January market, seeing that the team was heading towards Second, President Chen did scratch his pocket, 40 million, to bring four high signings, three of them being indisputable since they arrived: Cabrera, Embarba and RDT . They have given good results, but the arreón was late. To make matters worse, De Tomás who started as a motorcycle and went out on goal per game, has been physically reduced after the break by the epidemic, without recovering his version of the beginning of the year. And without his goals, Espanyol has been doomed to hell.

5. SUNK IN THE TAIL

90% of the championship has been spent in the relegation zone. Outstanding bottom (Espanyol never finished a League in the last place and this course has already occupied it in 21 days, with only one out of relegation), two wins in 17 home games, 55 goals so far, only 27 to favor…). The team that has scored the most goals and the fewest directors. The lack of forcefulness in the two areas, soft behind and without a goal above, has condemned him.

6. THE STOP BY COVID-19

It did not help him either because it was the First Division team with more cases of contagion, up to eight, from the first team. It did not help at all in the resumption of the championship since several of the players who were ill took much more time, naturally, to recover the physical tone. One more ballast.

7. MANY CHANGES IN THE DOME

Chen has become a shredder of charges as a carousel of layoffs hit the dome in all its aspects, from the economic to the sports. He has changed the CEO, the person in charge of marketing and has remodeled the sports plot with the goodbye of Perarnau and Fran Navarro. Now the strong men are Rufete (sports) and José María Durán (economic) who will have to captain, except for surprise, the project for Segunda.

8. UNKNOWLEDGES FOR THE FUTURE

It will be vital to be right with the new coach and with the signings that are made to fight in the Second, being the primary challenge endorsed by Chen that the transit through the darkness is only one year. And as important as signing with clairvoyance will be to remodel the current squad since it should not be forgotten that up to 9 players will now end their contract and there should be a forceful ‘clean’.