The funnel on the right side unblocked in 24 hours, five days after the parakeet's premiere in LaLiga SmartBank against Albacete. Last night, around 23:00, Espanyol made official the transfer of Gonzalo Ávila, Pipa, to Huddersfield of the Championship, while Víctor Gómez will go on loan to Mirandés for one season, simply in the absence of both entities publicly certify it. An assignment that was already closed for days.
Pipa will leave a little more than 500,000 euros in the box (and a lower percentage in case of a future transfer), so Espanyol made a change of stickers on the side. Óscar Gil was presented on Monday and the youth squad ends his irregular stage at Espanyol, in which he has barely been able to play 13 games in the last two seasons, most of them in the Copa del Rey and the Europa League. His match against Ferencvaros, in which he gave two assists, is part of his best memories in the first team.
The right-back wants to have continuity and has seen how in Espanyol no coach has trusted him despite winning a place in the Under-21 National Team. A player fully trained in the Sports City leaves Sant Adrià, with the question of really knowing what your level is. Óscar Gil, who already demonstrated last year that he can start a team that has been promoted, offers more guarantees to the technicians.
Pipa's march is accompanied by that of Víctor Gómez. The 20-year-old full-back, a native of Olesa de Montserrat, curiously the neighboring town of Esparreguera, where Pipa is, has known for weeks that a loan should be sought, and had it closed with Mirandés, where curiously the forward will also leave from the subsidiary Moha, who has not been, due to illness, with the first team in Marbella.
Víctor Gómez will try to consolidate himself in what is his second year as a professional, looking to accumulate minutes after the doors were closed on Vicente Moreno's squad. The arrival of Miguelón and Gil, together with the losses of Javi López, Pipa and the transfer of Víctor Gómez, change the face of the right back, a controversial position the previous season and lack of stability.