Álex Collado became Betis’s seventh summer signing but, nevertheless, the presence of the former Barcelona attacker in the squad that Manuel Pellegrini will train is not one hundred percent confirmed. And it is that in Heliópolis they are also considering giving up this year the footballer who last year played on loan at Elche.
This is how Ramón Planes, the club’s sports director, explained it: “We have top-level players in that position like Rodri and Luiz Henrique, who are similar to him, but we couldn’t miss the opportunity to incorporate him under very advantageous conditions for the club. At the asset level, I would contemplate it in that line of work that we are developing this summer”.
Or what is the same, unless offers for Rodri and Luiz Henrique arrived and Betis accepted them, Collado’s chances of staying in the Betis first team are slim.