As if it were a butterfly effect, the serious injury he suffered Gavi a couple of months ago with the Spanish team is serving to make up for the meager figures of the LaLiga transfer market. Let’s see. That misfortune suffered by the young midfielder against Georgia caused, without him wanting it, Barça to release salary mass that allowed them to anticipate this month the arrival, already finalized in the summer, of the Brazilian Vitor Roque. 30 million euros (plus the same amount in variables) which causes the total expenditure, beyond the halfway point of the contracting window, to rise to around 40 million in the First Division total.
In other words, if it had not been for this unexpected circumstance, today LaLiga would present a disbursement of just 10 million euros during the first two weeks of the market. An amount that four footballers cover: Betis has paid around six per Johnny CardosoGranada close to three Martin HonglaAlavés has paid the 600,000 euros of the termination clause of Carlos Vicente and Getafe has incorporated Yellow James for an almost symbolic undisclosed amount.
Only 11 players registered
In total, in short, there have only been four transfers with money involved and one of them had already been closed for months. The number will increase in these next two weeks, of course, but it doesn’t look like it will do so massively either. For yet another year, the low movement of transferred footballers is symptomatic. And even the scarcity of loan operations or free players is surprising, because on the website of LaLiga only 11 registered players appear so far this month, not counting those promoted from the subsidiary.
Ilaix Moriba (Getafe), Piatkowski y Battle (Granada) as transferred; and Jailson (Celta), Bruno Méndez (Granada) and Bailly (Villarreal) as free agents complete the list of players registered so far. Agoume y Hannibalalso on loan, will join soon, after being announced as reinforcements by a Sevilla that needs to release ballast to strengthen itself to the level set by its qualifying needs.
And that is one of the evils that threaten First Division clubs: pressed in most cases by salary limits, they cannot undertake reinforcements until they manage to place the footballers they have left over. Without extraordinary circumstances it is difficult for them to carry out operations. Granada, for example, is very active in the market because it has already accounted for the 15 million euros that it will earn for Bryan Zaragoza’s departure to Bayern the next summer.
What signings remain to be completed?
What can we expect from the remainder of the market? It is football and therefore everything is unpredictable, but no big movements are expected. Real Madrid has already decided not to sign anyone to alleviate the losses of Alaba y Military in the center of the defense and not to reinforce other demarcations. Barça, except for a new ploy in the form of leverage, does not have the capacity to increase its squad. And at Atlético everything depends on what could happen with players like Soyuncu o Correabut in any case we would bet on a low profile.
Sevilla and Villarreal are eager to incorporate new players to turn around their disappointing season, but once again the financial difficulties are a brake that is difficult to overcome. Real Sociedad, for its part, aims to add to its squad in the coming days Sheraldo Beckerone extreme to replace the transfer of Mohamed-Ali Cho for which it will pay around six million euros, in what may be one of the most important operations in this market.
2024-01-17 06:54:17
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