To the 18 years, and without ever having debuted with the first team, it was already Víctor Gómez champion of Europe, of the Mediterranean Games and runner-up in the World with the lower categories of the Spanish National Team. And there was renewed until 2025 with Espanyol, the club he landed in being Benjamin. Three years have passed since that seven-season contract was signed, on August 3, 2018, and the right-hander has gone from being one of the great and undoubted pearls of the quarry perica to a huge question mark. Only he can rebel against his fate.
After consuming a loan in the Mirandés that turned him into one of the best players at his position in the Second Division Last season – he participated in 38 of the 40 games he could play, due to the so-called fear clause, and even scored a goal and provided four – the return of Gómez was presented (and presented) a priori as a back and forth path to another loan, given that the opinions of Vicente Moreno, coach, and Francisco Joaquín Pérez Rufete, sports director, have not varied on the candidates for the right wing: Miguelón Llambrich -Which is already a parrot in property- and Oscar Gil.
In fact, the most normal thing would be for the youth squad to have been installed at Real Zaragoza for weeks, whose technical manager, Miguel Torrecilla, insisted at the beginning of the transfer market for Espanyol about his interest in incorporating him. But the situation of the blanquillo club – immersed in a change of ownership – surely prevented taking the last step to comply with the requirement that they asked from Espanyol: that they take charge of their entire file. That did not happen and Gómez started the preseason dressed as a blue and white. And with him first team, of which he is a player by contract –Fruit of that 2018 renovation– since a year ago.
Although the clubs that ask about their situation continue to happen, and despite the fact that their harmony with Espanyol can be improved, Víctor Gómez has before him a great opportunity, who knows if the only one, to outwit their own destiny. In the debut of the group, this Wednesday against Las Palmas, he started as a starter and established a good partnership in his lane with Adrián Embarba, where the greatest danger of the parrots in the whole party arrived. At half-time he was replaced by Miguelón Llambrich.
Precisely the Alicante returned to the playing fields after five months injured, due to the rupture of the anterior rectum that he suffered on February 14 against Mallorca. That external factor, a gradual reintegration to the rhythm of competition after a long ailment, joined to another, the absence of an Oscar Gil who is selected for the Olympic Games –Although it was ruled out in the debut on Thursday, against Egypt, like the parakeet Javi Puado– they can conspire in favor of a Víctor Gómez holding on to his options to stay, if he has any.
Miguelón played his first minutes against Las Palmas in five months.
Carlos Mira (RCDE)
Because the right-handed side has become a demarcation overcrowded. In addition to Miguelón, Gil and Víctor himself, Espanyol has in Marbella with Omar El Hilali, who already had minutes at the end of last season precisely when neither of the first two was available. Even Jofre Carreras, who is also in the Costa del Sol stay after overcoming another vast injury, can play behind, despite being a winger. And as if this were not enough, Rubén Sánchez squeezes from the subsidiary, although his fate seems to be linked to a loan – he has been linked to Castellón, from Primera RFEF – to get blanked out.
Now it is necessary to defoliate the daisy until we know if the future of Víctor Gómez is outside or inside a Espanyol that has seen him grow and explode, which turned him into undisputed headline with Pablo Machín, two seasons ago, to go anonymity with Abelardo Fernández and recover minutes precisely when he assumed the reins of the bench Rufete, today one of the custodians of the keys that will unlock the canterano's career.