Celta and Luis Campos have decided to separate their paths after a year and a half of professional relationship that the Portuguese manager combined with Paris Saint-Germain. The Vigo club announced late yesterday afternoon the friendly agreement reached with the external sports advisor for the termination of the contract, which expired in June 2024.. The Celta president wants to hire a sports director with full dedication to the Vigo team, who believes that Campos’ departure will not alter “the imminent sports planning” with which Celta wants to reinforce the squad of its first team next January with the hiring of a pivot and a center back.
“RC Celta and Luis Campos separate their paths. The club and the external sports advisor have reached an agreement for the separation of the Portuguese, who began his celestial stage in March 2022. RC Celta would like to express its gratitude to Luis Campos for the work carried out during the last year and a half and wish him a great success in the future,” explained the Vigo club in the information note released late yesterday afternoon. The continuity of Juan Carlos Calero, Campos’ man in Vigo, remains up in the air.
Luis Campos, in the air
Celta’s former external advisor was a personal bet by Carlos Mouriño, who sought to improve the club’s income with the arrival of young international talents to reinforce the squad and waiting for them to revalue themselves in Vigo pending important transfers. The Portuguese manager arrived in Vigo in March 2022 and a few days later he was dazzled by the potential of Gabri Veiga, in whom he saw enough quality to become an elite player. A year later, Celta sold the youth player for 30 million euros, thus becoming the second largest transfer in the history of the Vigo club.
The poor results of the celestial team and the increasing involvement of Campos in solving PSG’s problems led Marián Mouriño to declare at her inauguration as president of Celta that she would like to “be more accompanied” in the sports management and pointed out her desire to establish a “new sports organization chart”, different from the one he inherited from his father.
High spending in an incomplete market
The poor results of the team coached by Rafa Benítez and the poor performance of some of the new additions further distanced Campos from Celta’s problems. The Portuguese’s last public appearance with Celta was on October 27, in the match against Girona in Montilivi.
In the same press release, the Vigo club assures yesterday that Campos’ departure “will not affect the imminent sports planning with a structure that will be led with the incorporation of a new football director, with a different role and model from that of Campos, since it will be permanently present on a day-to-day basis.”
A manager defended by Carlos Mouriño but questioned by his daughter
The now honorary president of Celta, Carlos Mouriño, defended days ago, during the general meeting of shareholders where he replaced his daughter as president of the club, the commitment to Luis Campos: “Things can turn out good or bad, but I think we were very clear when we decided [la contratación del gestor portugués]”If we want to make a leap in quality we have to do something different, because we can’t due to budget.” Through Campos’ management, Celta was reinforced with players with a promising future such as Larsen and Douvikas, but with other bets that generated more doubts, such as Swedberg. Patience and Seferovic arrived to reinforce the lead. The list of incorporations with Campos as external sports advisor is completed with Bamba, De la Torre, Carles Pérez, Manu Sánchez, Starfelt, Guaita, Marchesín, Unai Núñez, Óscar Rodríguez, Mingueza or Diego Alves, in addition to Carlos Carvalhal and Rafa Benítez as technicians. Doubts about Campos’ management to reinforce the Celta squad increased last summer when the hiring of the player who would provide more muscle in the center of the field, as Benítez demanded, failed in the final moments of the transfer market. Meanwhile, the owner of PSG underlined the absolute involvement of the Portuguese manager in ensuring that the Parisian club offered a more competitive squad to Luis Enrique Martínez. During the centenary party that Celta organized in Afouteza, Marián Mouriño, Luis Campos and Juan Carlos Calero had to urgently address the transfer of Gabri Veiga to Saudi Al Ahli. It was the last public image that the Portuguese advisor shared with the new president of Celta. Marián Mouriño took advantage of the official ceremony of his inauguration to establish distances with the external advisor and announce the change of model for the sports management that advances with the departure of the Portuguese and awaiting the arrival of the new person in charge of the area that will have to take over. the hiring of the reinforcements that Rafa Benítez has been demanding.
2023-12-24 05:10:39
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