Sporting’s sports area has not stopped working in the offices, and, waiting for the end of the season, continues planning the next project. The continuity of Miguel Ángel Ramírez is not disputed. It’s safe. But important changes are coming in the squad. The goal is one of the positions that project uncertainty and that are under study.
Within its roadmap, the rojiblanco club welcomes the return home of Cuban goalkeeper Christian Joel, on loan from Celta B. In Mareo they have very good reports on the role that the young goalkeeper –23 years old– is playing, who is starring in a remarkable season in his time in Vigo. Joel has taken an important step in his career; he had already given another in his previous course on loan, at AEK Larnaca. At Celta he is being key in the good work of the second sky-blue team in the RFEF First Division, fifth ranked two points behind Deportivo: he has played 24 games, conceding 23 goals, averaging less than one goal per game. In fact, he has been cited on several occasions with the first team.
The sports area of the rojiblanco club has him on its radar. He has come to see him play several matches live, taking good note of his performances. Christian Joel has a contract with Sporting until June 2026. And the Galician club has a purchase option set at around half a million euros. Several Second clubs have already asked the club from Vigo about his thoughts with the goalkeeper. With the permanence still missing, which seems increasingly closer, Celta has not yet made a decision on whether or not to execute the purchase option. If that movement does not take place, Christian Joel fits into the rojiblanco project as one of the members of the goal of the next project.
The profitable transfer can take Mareo back, earning a place in the future squad. Today, Sporting has two goalkeepers after the departure of Diego Mariño to Almería in the January market: Pichu Cuéllar and Guillermo de Amores, who is on loan from Argentine Lanús. In Mareo they analyze the future of the Uruguayan goalkeeper with an Italian passport. He has not finished joining the team after a few months of adaptation and many changes: competition, country, but also before the hierarchy and the level shown by Pichu Cuéllar, captain. In the sports area, they consider that De Amores, controlled by the shared services of the Orlegi Group for several years, continue at Sporting beyond June 30. De Amores is a goalkeeper valued by the Uruguayan Federation. Without a single minute at Sporting, he was included in the last shortlist of his selection.
Miguel Ángel Ramírez, for the moment, is giving all the minutes of the decisive phase of the championship to Iván Cuéllar, who was already a starter with Abelardo and has continued in the position, also being important internally. The 38-year-old veteran goalkeeper, who beat another rojiblanco club institution such as Alonso Miluca (239 to 238) against Granada, has not yet been offered the renewal, waiting for his contract to be defined. situation at the end of the season, and what can happen with Christian Joel. He has serious options to end a successful stage at the rojiblanco club, where he has been a very important player, without outright ruling out the possibility of being offered to renew his contract for another year, which seems difficult.
