In the film ‘My life without me’, directed by Isabel Coixet, A young woman discovers that she is seriously ill and undertakes a list of tasks that she must do before she dies so as not to leave her husband and two daughters helpless. Monchi went to Aston Villa but he acted as sports director until the last moment and thus managed to solve to Sevilla several important ballots of his most immediate future. Starting by the continuity of José Luis Mendilibar and that of Nemanja Gudelj.
Mendilibar, the miracle coach that sHe took the team to the bottom of the table and led them to the conquest of their seventh Europa League, renewed a campaign after sitting at the table with the Nervionense board and with Monchi himself. Gudelj’s contract also ended on June 30 and his permanence was not a trivial matter: he is the footballer who played the most minutes last season as a Sevilla player, between midfield and defense. And one of the heavyweights in the locker room.
Monchi extended Gudelj’s contract to the next three seasons, until June 2026, to consolidate him in a squad that, thanks also to the man from Cádiz, already has two more members: Adrià Pedrosa reinforces the left back and the promising Argentine Federico Gattoni He does the same with the center of the rear. Gattoni arrives in Seville this Thursday night and both signings will be presented on Friday at noon.
The former sports director is blamed, yes, for having left a good brown in the form of players who return from loan such as Januzaj, Rony Lopes, Idrissi, Óscar Rodríguez, Delaney and several homegrown players. Víctor Orta, his successor, is already applying to the exit operation and it seems that the first to leave will be José Ángel Carmona. Sporting de Portugal is negotiating with the Nervionenses on the basis of a transfer fee of five million euros. Monchi has even had an influence on that, since the defender from El Viso rose to the first team while the man from Cádiz was in the general sports direction of Nervión.