He future of Xavi García Pimienta is increasingly further away from UD Las Palmas. At this point in the season, when 25 games have passed and the yellow team has guaranteed permanence in the absence of mathematical certification, which will arrive in a matter of a few days, the club is already planning the next season without the current coach on the bench. . With Álex Suárez renewed, Kirian tied as the new flagship of the squad and at least a couple of signings agreed upon, the entity is already looking for a new coach for the upcoming campaign in the First Division with the aim of not being too late.
The renewal of García Pimienta is an issue that both the president and the sports management have addressed in recent times, without success. The delays that the coach has given respond to his intention to wait for something betterr to take a leap in his career and, above all, increase his emoluments.
Given the great role he has played at UD, where he arrived in January 2022 and got into the playoff, first, and was promoted later, his cachet in the market is high and he understands that he should not miss the opportunity to go. to a club with greater sporting aspirations and that, consequently, can pay him more than the approximate million he earns at the island club.
“I would like to stay a long time”
Almost every time Garcia Pimienta has been questioned about its renewal in recent months, it has always referred to the team being saved first and then addressing that issue, however, in the entity, they already know that permanence is guaranteed and they have wanted to close the issue, but They have not received a positive response from the technician.
Only once, on January 31, when the club handed over the cars to some of the squad’s players at the Gran Canaria Stadium, did the coach deviate from his usual speech: “I think this does not apply to this moment… You already know the connection I have with the club and the Island. I would like to stay a long time, but now the important thing is to maintain the category. We are missing a few points, it will be very difficult (…) Unfortunately there may be bad moments like in some part of the first round. Now the most important thing is to save the category.
Xavi García Pimienta, on the Metropolitano bench. /Lof
Two days later – in the run-up to the Granada clash –, questioned about his statement that he would like to be on the UD bench for a long time and why he was missing, he once again referred to permanence. «Anything other than focusing on that is not worth it to me. Everything about a fashionable coach… Here you lose four games and everything goes to hell. I’m never going to allow that. I am the maximum sports person responsible for the decisions that are made in the OUT Las Palmasand if I am thinking about what is going to happen next year at UD or at Bayern Munich we are going to be wrong,” he declared.
The dream
Beyond the speeches and waiting for the appearance of Garcia Pimienta Next Friday, two days before UD hosts CA Osasuna at the Gran Canaria Stadium (5:30 p.m.), the coach is confident of being able to coach a great player next season. The Catalan believes that if he leaves Las Palmas it would not be to go to a First Division club other than, for example, FC Barcelona, his great dream.
It is worth remembering that The yellow coach was in the Barça entity for more than 20 years as a player and also as a coach. It is, therefore, the club of his life, from which, on the other hand, he was kicked out by the current president, Joan Laporta, at the end of the 2020-21 academic year, a few months after the top leader was elected by the members. .
Without a boss at Barça
Every time Xavi Hernández already announced that he will not continue on the culé bench next season, he becomes a candy for many coaches and García Pimienta appears on the shortlist of candidates. Even if he left the entity in whose lower categories he coached until three years ago badly, he is taken into account and the coach is aware of it.
Although occupying the Barça bench would be idyllic for the current yellow coach, in The next step would be to emigrate to a Premier League team, something that he himself and his entourage handle as a far from remote possibility. The fact that many Spanish coaches coach English teams, such as Pepe Guardiola at Manchester City, Mikel Arteta at Arsenal, Unai Emery at Aston Villa and Andoni Iraola at Bournemouth, and previously others such as Julen Lopetegui, Xavi Gracia or Rafa Benítez, opens up a door into what is considered the most powerful league in the world.
García Pimienta, in action during Atlético-UD. /Lof
Given the possibility that something much better could come out, García Pimienta has put off UD, which, aware that it is very difficult to retain the coach, has already begun the search for a coach for next season. Only a sudden twist in the script would end up with the Barcelonan for one more season on the UD bench, which considers him lost.
It should be remembered that last summer, once the promotion was completed, it took the parties more than a week to seal the renewal. At the same time, they revealed that it took them “a minute” to seal it when García Pimienta went to the home of Miguel Angel Ramirez to discuss the matter face to face. Days later, the president would explain with a resounding phrase what, in his opinion, was the reason for the delay: “They are Catalans and the problem is the problem.”
The signing for only one season when Ramírez had assured on the same day that UD achieved promotion, May 27, 2023, that he wanted “a long project”, responded above all to the coach’s demand, who knew that if his team was having a good campaign in Primera would have offers from important teams, as is the case.
The announcement of renewal until 2025 last October was only as support in his fight with Jonathan Viera
Notably The fictitious renewal until 2025 that the UD announced last October was simply that, a paripé whose sole objective was to make it clear that the club was positioning itself in favor of the coach in its conflict with Jonathan Viera, who ultimately lost: he announced his departure in December and today he is a player for Almería, bottom of the category. García Pimienta himself took it upon himself to invalidate it days later: “Either of the two parties can break the agreement at the end of the season if they so consider.”
So, The Catalan coach would only have 13 games left in charge of UD Las Palmas, the club that, with the help of Luis Helguera, gave him the opportunity to make the leap to professionalism. He himself has now earned his right to decide and dream of being on the Barça bench or one of the Premier League.
2024-02-20 23:23:40
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