Sevilla FC: Almeyda’s Striker Challenge

Matías Almeyda will arrive during this week Sevilla To learn about the club’s facilities and get down to work before the squad starts with medical awards over the weekend, the starting gun for a new preseason. HE will leave for the next Monday the beginning of the first training, to which only the international ones that competed with the league already finished, such as Lukebakio, Badé, Gudelj, Agoumé or Juanlu. As is happening in the last seasons to the Nervión Club, the new coach will find a squad full of players who do not count or some who in principle should not count, but that the club will be difficult to find the formula to remove them from above. And within that great salary mass to face income well below that important expense, it stands out The front positionwhere the Sevillists have up to four men with a contract for a single position, since the Argentine coach plays with two ends and a single tip, or at least that is their favorite style. Strikers surplus, with the spot of the past of not having found any of them that scorer who has missed Sevilla, especially in the last season, since En-nesyria I had to make the suitcases forced to Türkiye.

Sevilla trained by Joaquín Caparrós The season ended with García Pascual As an offensive reference. The young striker has not released his final destination at the end of contract, although all roads lead to the end of wearing the Cádiz colors, like Susoin an important step for his career after signing the goal of salvation. The Utrerano coach chose a large area forward ahead of a Isaac Romero lost during most of the course and fought with football and rival goal. And what García Pimienta He gave him all possible opportunities to shine. Outside work, Lebrija’s was lost in a year to forget. After his tremendous explosion playing with two strikers and by the hand of Quique Sánchez Floresit’s time to redirect his career. The club continues to believe in it, although it will now be Almeyda Who must find the formula to shine again, not to feel only inside the area.

The other attacker who was in the template at the end of the previous course, although seeing the games from the stands due to a serious muscle injury, was Acor Adams. The Nigerian, whose image celebrating the permanence with Joaquín Caparrós gave a lot to talk about, barely participated in the months he has been in Nervión because of two muscle injuries. The player has been working on their tuning, focusing a new start of the course with other perspectives. It is the opposite of Isaac. They could even be complementary, although it will be the new coach who decides how the pieces of the Sevilla attack fits. So much Isaac as Akor They have several more signed contracts and their intentions are to continue in the Sevillist discipline. This leaves Antonio Cordón With little room for maneuver to change something on the tip of the attack. An inheritance to which Almeyda must take advantage, who will also depend on those goals of the strikers so that his project can settle on the basis of the results.

The ‘dreaded’ returns

However, that template that ended the league will not be the same as at the beginning of the preseason, with two attack men returning to the Sevillist discipline, with contracts in force and little acceptable salaries for a Seville of cuts, less in the Rafa Mir caseone of those involved, who still has the high amortization of his signing. And it is that the Murcian attacker, who would go out the back door of the Sánchez-Pizjuán After his direct confrontation with the Andalusian leaders, he returns after a year convulsible in Valencia for his problems with justice. With that case in the absence of resolution, and the siren songs that came to the player from Mexicoreturn to Nervión with the intention of staying unless an offer that did seduce him in the economical and sports. For everything mentioned above, the club seems almost impossible Rafa Mir It will increase as the weeks go by.

Something similar happens with the return of Kelechi Iheanacho. He was signed last summer after a year without just playing at Leicester after refusing to renew. His physical condition was far from the minimum required to compete with Sevilla and did not take advantage of his assignment to Middlesbroughwho decided not even try to keep the attacker another season. It was the bet of Victor Orta At zero cost, although a contract had to be made above the three million gross of salary for two more seasons an optional third. The performance offered has been very far from what expected. He barely had minutes in the League, thinking García Pimienta that the only bullet had been spent on improving the lead in a little compromised footballer. Iheanacho is working this summer to arrive in a better physical state. Anyway, it is the one who is less clear to continue in Nervión. It is being offered in markets such as Turkish and the American, being the MLS a good destination for a man who has lowered his competitive interest, but his curriculum, having passed through him Manchester Citythey keep you with a good poster.

Anyway, the preseason with Sevilla. Almeyda will meet up to four strikers who should fight for a single position in the initial eleven. Each with their qualities, but all with the same feeling: they arrive after a year between bad and worse. They have not fulfilled expectations in their respective destinations, or in Sevilla, or far from Sánchez-Pizjuán. And this situation within a team that desperately needs a man who successfully resolves in the rival area. A scorer that Antonio Cordón, for the moment, will not have to look because he has surplus in position. His work will be to try to get the factory surplus. If it can. AND Matías Almeyda Find the best sporting point of them all, in case in the end you can redirect the career of some of their strikers.

Aiko Tanaka

Aiko Tanaka is a combat sports journalist and general sports reporter at Archysport. A former competitive judoka who represented Japan at the Asian Games, Aiko brings firsthand athletic experience to her coverage of judo, martial arts, and Olympic sports. Beyond combat sports, Aiko covers breaking sports news, major international events, and the stories that cut across disciplines — from doping scandals to governance issues to the business side of global sport. She is passionate about elevating the profile of underrepresented sports and athletes.

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