The departure of Sabin Merino, the biggest challenge of Sanllehí

find one departure to Sabin Merino not excessively burdensome for the economy of Real Zaragoza is, without a doubt, the greatest of challenges What lies ahead for the new CEO Raúl Sanllehí. And it is that the Basque striker, 31 years old and with a performance absolutely unproductivehe still has three more seasons left on his contract and his salary is half a million euros grossat the height of best paid of the squad, along with Cristian Álvarez and Narváez, another of those who are already on the market.

Sabin Merino, to whom Miguel Torrecilla signed in the last winter market to try to amend its own sports programming, with once again a lack of goal more than alarming, it is the most unsuccessful incorporation and the worst inheritance in a year and a half from the sports director. He has played 16 games, 13 startsy not been able to score a goal nor to give any solution to the team on the left wing, despite the insistence by Juan Ignacio Martinez in aligning it on each day, many times ahead of Iván Azón.

The Biscayan striker He has never enjoyed appreciable goalscoring records in his career, except in Segunda B in its beginnings with Bilbao Athleticbut, just like what happened a year before with Álex Alegría, another direct bet by Torrecilla, or six months before with Toro Fernández and Vuckic, the last and very expensive steps taken by Lalo Arantegui, was introduced as a remedy opportune for the Zaragoza’s lack of goaleven at the cost of mortgaging the future of the club with a contract that is difficult to explain due to its duration and its economic amount.

Sanllehí knows that it will not be easy to place Sabin Merino in the Spanish Second Division, not even transferred without the loan being very burdensome, and his future could be in some foreign minor league or maybe in the Miami Inter, who is also chaired and owned by Jorge Mas.