The transfer market for Espanyol You can be anything but impulsive. faithful to prudent disposition from his owner and president and the “timmings” of its current sports director, the process that should culminate with the landing of a series of reinforcements in winter it is being slow and matured. As AS has learned, the planning bases are not being laid these days, in Pinatar Arena, not even since the team returned to training: it happened two months ago, with a meeting at the highest level between the triumvirate responsible for executing operations.
chen yanshengpresident, from a distance, Diego Martinez and Domingo Catoiracoach and sports director, respectively, from Barcelona They defined the demarcations that Espanyol must reinforceat a time well before the World Cup break, with the desire not to get carried away for the qualifying moment of the team that occurred after the first 14 days, whatever it was. In this case, to a point in the relegation zone. The guidelines were then set: cover the needs that remained pending in the summer market and satisfy any new.
Translated into specific positions, what Espanyol is after in this winter market is a center, an end –as it had been persecuted until September 1, without success– and a porter, given the insufficient performance offered to date by the two who arrived on loan in the summer, Benjamin Lecomte and Álvaro Fernández, both on loan. The name that has sounded the most, that of Cesar Montes for the rear axle, still not closedas this newspaper has been warning, due to the demands of his current club, Montereyespecially after his good performance in the World Cup.
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Espanyol has not been able to comply with the first of its ideal scenarios, which went through have already had some of these additions during the team’s stay at Pinatar Arenaso that it was coupled to the template weeks before its registration, on January 2, but the hope that he will join the return and thus be able to offer the maximum possible immediate performance, since there will be no time to lose in the resumption of the championship.
For now, Catoira is located on the Costa Calida closely following the evolution of the team, as part of the expedition he joined a day later, and continuously sharing information and assessments with Diego Martínez. Parallel, Chen does not plan to travel to Barcelona soonnot in vain will chair the Shareholders’ Meeting next Tuesday electronically, while the CEO, Mao Yehas attended these days to the extraordinary assembly of LaLiga, which is held in Dubaitogether with the deputy general manager of the club, Antony Alegre.