“If I think about debuting, I wince.” It happened in the summer of 2016 at Sporting when a very young Pedro Díaz uttered these words. Perhaps the first before the press. He would not fulfill his dream of wearing the rojiblanca in the last year that Sporting lived in the First Division, but few could imagine the importance of that boy from La Fresneda in the future. Like other players, such as Manu García or Gragera, Pedro Díaz was asked to mark an era, but perhaps it was the era itself that ended up marking them. Such a strange, confusing, and complicated time where Sporting has struggled not to sink out of professional football instead of fighting for promotion to the First Division.
Time will tell. But now, almost 20,000 minutes later between the first team and the reserves, Pedro Díaz is preparing as others did before him to pack his bags. Sporting and Girondins discuss the last commas of the agreement. The conversation is about the percentages that each club retains from the player. The fixed amount of the deal will be around three million and with variables it will go higher. Sporting wants to keep an ace up its sleeve: have 20 percent of the player’s capital gains in the event of a future transfer.
The entire operation has been carried out step by step by LA NUEVA ESPAÑA. Last night, French media considered the agreement closed.
Going back to August 2016, a spindly Pedro Díaz appeared, with side bangs and an analog watch adorning one of his wrists. He dreamed of a place at Sporting de Canella, Meré, Cuellar or Sergio Álvarez. Which was the same as Douglas and Traoré. Paco Herrera was the first to give him confidence. He played a Copa del Rey tie against Reus in 2017. It was the return to Segunda, of that erratic Sporting in the game but effective in the result that dreamed of a return to the elite until the second was over.
The subsidiary had gone up and it was their territory. He made his debut in Segunda B in 2014-2015 and played five games. His participation rose to 27 the following year and he experienced the relegation of 2016. He would rise again the following year playing 41 games and scoring five goals. José Alberto timidly appeared in the first team at the end of 2018-2019. He made his debut at La Romareda against Zaragoza in a defeat by four goals to two that only confirmed the greatest. That Sporting was neither there nor expected for the promotion.
The growth of Pedro Díaz from there was indisputable. The boy from La Fresneda had no choice but to grow up quickly. His greater weight in the first team is explained to a large extent by his talent, but it coincides with the drop in expectations in recent years as demonstrated in 2018-2019 where the team ended up in no man’s land. Sporting was thirteenth and Díaz played 28 games and scored three goals. The first course of David Gallego (what things are) has been the only parenthesis in which the illusion has had some margin. With the man from Suria, Pedro Díaz played 37 games and scored three goals. He dreamed of another Sporting from the gourds, but the dream ended in a nightmare on the last day of the League against Almería.
The last two courses have been those of the confirmation of Pedro Díaz as a very important player in the scheme of any Sporting. The irruption of him and other homegrown players in the eleven has perhaps been the only salvageable thing in two very difficult years in which Sporting came to see his survival in professional football seriously endangered. Pedro Díaz played in the 2021-2022 season in all 42 games of the year and last year he was in 33, so he played a very relevant role in everything.
In his favor he has to have convinced José Alberto, Djukic, Gallego, Martí, Abelardo and now Miguel Ángel Ramírez in these years. The canary, in fact, wants it for this season. It will not be so except for an important turn of events. With his and Gragera’s goodbye in winter, a midfield called to mark an era, but which ended up marked by her, was shelved.
2023-07-29 02:15:00
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