Antonio Cordón, football director of Sevilla FChad left some homework pending in the summer. He worked to free up salary and chips in order to complete a squad that was somewhat lame in the midfield and forward. The fact of … Being looking for both positions in the winter market speaks for itself. One of those chips that he didn’t need and that stagnated was the goalkeeper’s. Alvaro Fernandezwho did not count for the club and, over time, neither for Sevilla’s own coach, Matías Almeyda that he told him from the first day that he had reached an agreement with the leaders so that the third goalkeeper would be Alberto Flores and that he was not going to have opportunities. The Riojan didn’t care. After a few months in oblivion, he has reconsidered proposals such as that of Deportivo de la Coruña and he is already a new player for the Galician team. Until 2027. Just what he had signed with a Sevilla who handed him the freedom letter.
And releasing the goalkeeper from his contractual relationship was always on the table in the summer negotiations, when Arab clubs, the United States and the United States itself Second division They had knocked on his door. Álvaro had just been renewed by Sevilla after a year on trial, after arriving with the freedom letter from the Huesca. I thought I could continue contributing and pushing the coach for a place on the team, despite the fact that the arrival of Vlachodimos He closed all doors, even for calls. They gave him no alternative. Without playing a single minute this season, his options were to leave Sevilla, despite the two-year contract signed that extended until 2027. Decision of Víctor Orta, the previous sports director and his main supporter at Sevilla.
Álvaro Fernández demanded those two signed years to leave with the letter of freedom in the summerwhen the club ran out of chips to close any more additions in the last hours. His intransigence was not viewed favorably by a leadership that had squeezed men like Marcao, Sow o Januzaj -those who accepted- to lower their emoluments. Sevilla needed salary space, in addition to that necessary chip for the times to come, which are none other than reinforcing the team in January.
Cordón has rushed with this first operation without the market being even open. The truth is that the dismissal of Álvaro Fernández, without any transfer compensation, represents an expense for the club’s coffers, although They are freed from their bib number and also from part of the money they had to pay until the end of their contract. Both parties have been very satisfied with the resolution of the contractso it is considered positive before facing a month with many aspects for the Sevillistas, who will have to resolve everything from economic problems – they need a significant sale – to the issue of registerable chips, a workhorse that the club already had during the summer, without a final favorable solution.
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It is Cordon’s first stepat full speed, marks the path of what the Nervion leaders want to do in this winter market, a window to plug holes, resolve backlogged issues and, on top of that, try to improve the squad. A lot of fabric to cut in a very short time. With the march of Alvaro Fernandez Yes, a period opens where the solutions are more at hand. The vullitate It once again complicates the available chips, with there being none with the return of the Argentine, a well-known issue some time ago. Now Sevilla would only need to place or sell one of the members of its dressing room to find a place for the desired forward. Every movement should come with an exit. Depending on its entity, you may go to the market or not.
