With five games to go until the season ends, the Spanish He is last ten points down. There are fifteen at stake. And this Sunday, at 5:00 pm, they receive the visit of the Leganes of Javier
Aguirre. Only one point separates them. Two teams that already seem to compete to maintain pride. To die standing up, in warlike language. On Wednesday, the Barcelona derby at the Camp Nou.
And meanwhile, Rufete in command of the team. The person in charge of making the template of the Spanish For the present campaign, he was forced, two days ago, to go down to the pitch and try to fix what he had helped to create. In summer with Roger Guasch in the corporate area and Óscar Perarnau In sports, the former player was able to say and do, but not as much as he wanted. In winter, with the arrival José María Durán As CEO, he could say and do, but it was too late.
The club gave him full sports powers in June but now his only responsibility is to train.
Rufete admitted in the pre-match against the Real society that he was “one hundred percent focused” on training and that “there are people from the club structure working” in the preparation of the squad for the next season before the increasingly clear descent of the club to Monday twenty-six years later. Despite the fact that at the beginning of June the player from Alicante assumed full power in the club, today his main “responsibility” is to direct the dressing room.
An anomalous situation for the critical state of the club. The Blue and Whites’ entity still refrains from speaking openly about the decline, although Durán already warned in February that they were working on a ‘Plan B’ in the event of a decline. Now, the person in charge of creating an Espanyol with possibilities of promoting in a year in Second, cannot carry out his work in the conditions that he should.
The renewals of discord
The break of LaLiga Because of the coronavirus crisis, it has slowed things down while tightening the calendar. The competition will end at the end of this July and the parakeet club has many open fronts. Among them are contract renewals. Javi López, Diego Lopez, Didac
Town, Other
Iturraspe and Naldo they ended their contract on the 30th, as on loan Bernardo
Espinosa, Jonathan
Calleri, Facundo
Ferreyra and Sébastien
Corchia. With the exception of Corchia, the end of the contracts was postponed until the end of the season.
Much of the Spanish public opinion demands that of those who are about to renew, no one does. Either because they have already provided all the services to the club or because they are pointed out as responsible for the degradation of the squad and, therefore, incompatible to continue in an Espanyol that must seek the return to First as soon as possible. Veterans Javi López, Dídac Vilà and Diego López are the most indicated by headlines and, in the first and third cases, captains.
Between selling, holding on and the quarry
Also, if nothing changes, Rufete will be in the position of convincing some players like Raul
of
Thomas, Leandro
Cabrera, Adrián
Embarba, Marc
Roca, Sergi
Darder The Wu
lei, to stay as leaders of a new project or make cash with the sale of any of them. The case of the Chinese striker is exceptional, as he ends his contract in January and this one is special.
Meanwhile Rufete, perhaps as a message of hope for the future, gives minutes to young people and youth academies like Pol
Lozano, Victor
Gómez and Nico
Melamed. But these, overwhelmed by the situation, are not capable of responding freely in the field, as neither do the rest of the teammates.
Four consecutive victories have sentenced the team
Against Real Sociedad Espanyol added their fourth consecutive defeat, something that had not happened since the 11-12 season with Mauricio
Pochettino on the bench. Two in Abelardo’s account and another two in Rufete’s. In total, there are twelve points that the Blue and Whites let slip and with which, if they had made a plenary session, they would be out of the descent and with a different future perspective.
Espanyol’s descent is getting closer every day and Rufete, one of those responsible for this debacle and who at the same time has the obligation to heal the wounds, is wearing out on the bench, appearing at press conferences with almost no voice or arguments, helping to pose the team’s head in the coffin.
