the figure of Francis Rufete, sports director of Espanyol, is back in the trigger. After the team has closed January being unable to win any of the five matches he has played (1-1 in Ponferrada in the Cup, where he went on penalties; 1-2 against Elche in the League; 2-1 against Mallorca in the Cup; 2-2 in Cádiz avoiding defeat in 95′ and 1- 4 against Betis in the League again), the accusing finger of many fans returns to Rufete to look for the cause of the males of the team.
The head of the current squad is blamed for not having built a really ambitious project, taking advantage of the good economic situation that the entity goes through, confessed by its own managers and that constitutes a exception in these moments of pandemic in which other clubs are so drowned.
The team deficiencies in positions (and he is not the only one, just as an example) such as that of right-back, who has been covering himself on occasions with Aleix Vidal, who has shown his obvious gaps to perform the defensive tasks required by this demarcation, is one of the faults attributed to him.
The protest of the social mass reaches the leaders, indicated by ‘shield‘ in the figure of the sports director and of not giving that boost to the team that the economic situation would allow.
Difficult moments for a Espanyol that awaits a difficult calendar league: Athletic away, Barça and Sevilla consecutively at home and visit to Villarreal.
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