At 20:12 the UDA has announced the replacement of Guti. And it has not made it to use, but detailing the technical body. “We have a new coaching staff in the fight for promotion. The team is made up of Mário Silva, Fernando Santos, Jesús Muñoz, Pedro Mesquita, Víctor Mañas, Rui Costa, Ricardo Molina, Eurico Pinhal and Víctor Fortes”, announces the entity from Almería, with problems with the salary cap to hire an outside technician.
Not in vain, in February the club's general director, Mohamed El Assy, met with Guti's representative, Juanma López, to negotiate his departure, denying the second and with hardly any margin of error the club due to the salary limit. So, in theory the first coach will be Mário Silva (Porto, 1977), who was the director of the Academy. However, the Portuguese does not have all the sports documentation in order to be able to train alone in Spain.
The Portuguese international arrived in September at the unionist entity to face the youth team, having in the next three weeks – five in the event of promotion – the opportunity to move up to Primera in his first great adventure as a coach. He was champion of the UEFA Cup in 2003 and a year after the Champions League under Mourinho, team in which Pedro Emanuel played. As coach he proclaimed himself UEFA Youth League champion last year with the youth from Porto.
Next to him will be Nandinho (Porto, 1973), already an ex-technician for Almería B. He also arrived at the subsidiary in October. Despite staying 3 points behind the promotion, he achieved good numbers, with 12 wins, 7 draws and 2 two losses. The other important man is that of Jesús Muñoz (Cuenca, 1976), second to Fran Fernández last year, returning in February to provide Guti with more knowledge. There has been no incorporation from outside, since Mañas, Molina and Fortes were in the coaching staff of the first team and Mesquita, Rui Costa and Pinhal in that of the 'B'.