The president of the UD Las Palmas, Miguel Angel Ramirez, announced this Monday the imminent arrival to the yellow team of a midfielder, whose signing is “practically closed”, while ruling out the incorporation of a forward.
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The island leader has confirmed in the press conference after the extraordinary general meeting of the club that the new footballer will arrive next week, when training is resumed, thus responding to the coach’s request, Pepper Mel, to make up for the loss of Sergio ruiz with a player “of those characteristics”.
But nevertheless, Ramirez He has assured that he is “not aware” that the Madrid coach “has asked for a striker”, although he has explicitly done so in several appearances before the media due to the lack of success of the team on the occasions it generates.
“If something else can come, we will, but a priori, no,” added the island president, ruling out that the almost tied signing, to which he referred, is Rober, of Betis, who already played on loan for the yellow team last season.
The intention is to make Cardona and Moleiro professionals
Ramirez has explained that they have two free chips in the squad and the intention is to make professionals Sergi cardona already Alberto MoleiroTherefore, in order to bring in new players, they will have to withdraw something, in the form of rescission or transfer, and that is “sports management strategy”, without entering into names.
With respect to Moleiro, has confirmed that there are “national and international teams” interested in the yellow footballer, but the UD Las Palmas He has “no interest in selling it” because the idea “is not to weaken the team, but to strengthen it” to achieve the goal of “promotion” at the end of the season.
Mfulu only needs to reappear
Ramirez stressed that in the run-up to the second round Pepper Mel will have “the entire squad” at his disposal after having recovered the players who were injured, such as Peñaranda Y Pejiño, because the only thing left to reappear is the Congolese Free.
In his opinion, these injuries “have seriously weighed down the competitive level of the team”, which in an “objective analysis” should have “five or six more points” at the end of this first round of LaLiga SmartBank, which ended in seventh place. , equaled 31 points with the Girona, sixth.
This is the classification of LaLiga Smartbank.
Ramirez assures that he trusts “a lot” in Pepper Mel, and rules out that the coach will play his position on the bench in the next two games, against the Tenerife, in the Heliodorus, and a week later in front of the leader Almeria, in Gran Canaria.
“You have to be positive, we are on time for everything, and January 2 -derbi from the Canary Islands- is a good day to celebrate a good result and face the second round in the conditions that we all expect,” he predicted.
Corroborates the version offered by Viera
On the other hand, the island president has referred to the mishap suffered last weekend by the high-end car owned by Jonathan Viera, corroborating the version offered by the player himself on social networks.
“That car is driven by his friends, he loaned it, had an accident, his friend did not suffer any mishap because it was in a roundabout, he did not go at high speed, and we do not know that there is any other explanation. We have to celebrate that his friend did not nothing happened to him, and the only problem is what the repair will cost now, “he clarified.