The quarry has become a priority for Granada. “We have to strengthen the quarry, the second team has to supply the first squad”said sports director Pep Boada when he landed in Los Cármenes. Because for the growth and development of the entity all see vital that the quarry is the future base of Granada. “You have to have trained players who can help us and who can install themselves little by little in the first team. The Granada quarry is healthy and we have to inject illusion so that they see that there are doors that are easy to open “, he stressed. Said and done, because the quarry has become the perfect complement to Robert Moreno.
The Catalan coach does not shake his pulse when he has to put a young man in the eleven. “In the future we want five or six players from the eleven to be from the quarry,” he said on more than one occasion. You can see that He has worked a lot with young players and has bet heavily, especially on Raúl Torrente and Isma Ruiz. The first one has earned a place by freehand training after training and, above all, with a great performance when circumstances have put him in the eleven. The second, despite the injuries, has gained weight because the coach’s confidence was from the beginning. Isma Ruiz, despite wearing a squad number, is a full-fledged first-team player.
Raúl Tórrente is a left-handed center-back with a good ball out and whose feet don’t shake in front of anyone. In fact, the absences of Duarte, Germán and Victor Diaz placed him as a starter for the first time no less than in La Catedral against Athletic. A baptism of fire in which the Murcian left very good feelings. Before he had had minutes against Levante and Real Madrid. From his tenure in Bilbao he has earned a place even ahead of Peruvian international Abram when Germán returned and Victor Díaz, already recovered. A headache for Robert Moreno when Duarte also returns …
It has been more complicated Isma Ruiz. He made his debut as a starter in last year’s match against Real Sociedad marked by COVID. But his baptism has been against Atlético. He left the title and gave a recital in the center of the field with Milla. The Granada-born player passed Eteki or Monchu to take his place in the eleven. It is true that the injuries (he had a torn ligament and later a sprain in the other knee) have prevented Moreno from being able to pull more of him. But are not the only ones. Pepe, Butzke or Bryan have already had minutes, goalkeeper Ángel is the great bet for the future, and Barcia or Plomer have already been with the elders at some point. The future Granada is in the subsidiary …
Against Atlético, six players who passed through Recreativo Granada
It is not usual and it has rarely happened in Granada in the First Division, but Against Atlético, up to six players who have passed through Recreativo Granada coincided in the starting eleven: Puertas, Suárez, Machís, Torrente, Neva and Isma Ruiz. It is true that the majority passed after being signed for the subsidiary. In fact, Machís, Puertas, Isma Ruiz, Neva and Torrente made the jump from the subsidiary to the first team. In the case of Neva, in fact, he went from the subsidiary to the first team to stay. Not Luis Suarez and Puertas, who emigrated to return, or Machís, who made his debut with the elders before changing of scene to return as the prodigal son.