The wet role of the three renovations of Espanyol

They are, strange as it may seem almost a month after certifying the descent and two weeks after finishing LaLiga, the only market movements officialized by Espanyol. That way, yes, because there were no communications, nor solemn tweets, just an affirmative with a small mouth from the club's factotums in the appearance of 12 days ago. The renovations of Javi López, Diego López and Dídac Vilà For now, they make up the bulk of news – although it is true that some arrivals are very close – for the 2020-21 squad in the Second Division. And, oddly enough, not even his presence is assured.

“Responsibility“is the term used to justify the three contract extensions, which were forged during the lockdown, before the decisive (and also insufficient) final leg of LaLiga. A double-edged sword: the club could wrongly imply that, if they had not been renewed, the players' commitment was in question. And it wasn't like that. The thing is that his continuity hangs by a thread.

It will depend to a large extent the new technician, if everything ends up straightening Vicente Moreno, and also the market. If Espanyol is able to balance budget, ups and downs and salary limit, a very difficult task, you will not need that ace up your sleeve that you reserved with your renewals for at least be able to start the next course with enough players.

Detailing the proper names, Dídac Vilà, the only one who did not sign for one but for two more years, until 2022, is a priori who more options have to stay. Different is the situation from Javi López, despite being the captain, and Diego Lopez, who has been linked among others with the Celta Vigo, a First, although nothing has ever been confirmed, so his loyalty is as flawless as that of the other two players.

You can even give the situation of that the three start the league course with Espanyol –If it finally begins on September 12, as stipulated– but leave the entity before midnight on October 5th, when this year the summer market will exceptionally close.

In case this happens, these renovations on wet paper would not only do serious harm for some of those affected, with whom market time logically works against, but also they might not be free for an Espanyol who would look doomed to have to compensate any of the three players for a termination of the contract, if not for a dismissal.

It would be, at that point, an extra expense that would do a lot of damage for its unnecessaryness, totally avoidable simply not having carried out any renovation if you did not blindly believe in it, and because the current context requires studying every euro that comes out of the coffers, as is being verified with the hiring of Vicente Moreno.