There were no last minute surprises in the transfer market for Real Sociedad. The txuri-urdin team will face the season until January with the only reinforcement of David Silva. On the last day of the market, the txuri-urdin club He was able to release Willian José, tried to sign Carlos Fernández and waited for the possibility of incorporating a central defender. Nothing came out, so it stays the same. There will be 25 players from the first team, plus Martin Zubimendi, who will wear the number 36.
The focus of the Real market in the last hours was on Carlos Fernández, the Sevilla striker who was marked in red on the agenda and for which the Football Directorate was betting to reinforce the attack, as long as Willian José left the realistic club, which they have tried to place until the last hours of the market closing. What the player's agents began, bringing different offers that were not of interest to the Anoeta offices, the Real has continued, proposing different options for him to leave San Sebastián, understanding that this was what his environment wanted and at the same time tired by the constant interference by the investment fund that has a percentage of its federative rights to seek an outlet for the Brazilian. The fact is that in the last hours both names have joined, trying to fit both operations. Sevilla surprised the realistic football management by taking an interest in Willian José, so they tried to fit a barter between the players in both clubs.
Sevilla and Real Sociedad have been trying to reach an agreement for much of this final day of the transfer market. But there was no understanding. On the one hand there was the negotiation for the transfer of Carlos Fernández, whose positions were quite close, between clubs and with the Sevillian attacker himself. The operation was around 12 million euros, but to be carried out, Willian José's part had to go ahead. La Real preferred a barter between players and financial compensation for the difference in market value between the two players. But Sevilla only wanted a one-season loan, and no mandatory purchase option. La Real was willing to accept an assignment to unlock the operation, although at all times including a purchase option; but he has come across that Willian José, who had already refused to go on loan to France this summer, did not want a loan, but only agreed to be transferred to leave the Real. So, as without the departure of the Brazilian the purchase of Carlos Fernández could not be closed, the agreement with Sevilla could not be carried out. And everything stayed as it was.
Neither did the central wanted by Imanol Alguacil finally arrive to cover Diego Llorente's departure. The realist club had several alternatives open in the final stretch of the transfer market, but none have really been within reach and there has been no option to close a level defender to reinforce the defensive axis. Mario Hermoso never wanted to leave Atlético de Madrid, which had financial pretensions that Real did not want to reach. Y Espanyol only wanted to sell Leandro Cabrera, when Real came to propose a loan. And the offers that the realistic club had did not convince either to launch for them. So, finally, Real is left with Aritz Elustondo and Robin Le Normand as first team centrals, with the support of midfielder Igor Zubeldia, while with alternatives are Modibo Sagnan and the defenders of the subsidiary Pacheco and Arambarri. This decision means that the Frenchman does not go out on loan to Mirandes, and that Real says no to Jon Guridi's request for the loan of Rayo Vallecano, because by delaying Zubeldia, it will be necessary in the rotation of the center of the field.