He Sevilla FC The new year starts with numerous open fronts. From a sporting perspective, with Matias Almeyda and his players preparing the first match of the year against Levante or with Antonio Cordon fuming between exit and entry procedures … in the winter market that begins this Friday, to the institutional one, with the sale of large shareholding packages on the table and that would mean a change in the entity’s command position.
The club has a semester ahead with several challenges. The sport aims to ensure permanence, hence the importance of the next two home games at the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán against Levante and Celta, but also with the hope of achieving good results that would allow us to aim higher. The disappointment of the Copa del Rey forces that extra effort in LaLiga to try to reach the end of the championship with a chance of a good classification. In the economic section, the president, José María del Nido Carrascoas noted at the last shareholders meeting, with the aim of achieving economic balance in this year, which involves adding new capital gains with the sale of a player.
The third and most complex aspect involves the governance of Sevilla. During this month of January, new movements are expected that would bring the purchase and sale of shares that has been so occupying the board of directors closer. With an American group ahead of the rest in that race which has begun by acquiring a majority percentage of Sevilla, the steps that are taken could accelerate its arrival. Everything will depend on the analysis of the entity’s accounts that allow us to put in black and white that proposal that does seem to satisfy the large shareholders.
The edges of the sale
However, numerous unknowns remain surrounding the process. The confidentiality of this type of negotiations means that it is unknown who is behind this offer, what future plan they have for Sevilla or who they would count on in this new project that should begin in Nervión in the first half of 2026 if everything goes as planned. Analyze balance sheets, close agreements with shareholders and organize the future planwhich would involve injecting money into the coffers – the possibility of a capital increase is on the table – are not issues that can be decided in one day and do require even more face-to-face meetings.
With an American group at the head of the bid, Lappí and Quintero do not give up as they have the social support of Sevillismo
Waiting for what happens are the rest of the interested parties, among which is the one known as Third Way headed by Antonio Lappí and Fede Quinterowho do not consider the battle lost. Although it is leaked from the shareholders’ circle that their proposal does not meet the requirements, they do have the social support of a sevillismo that gives them a face and that would guarantee that fidelity to the shield also in the box. Also remaining in the shadows is former president José María del Nido Benavente, the largest individual shareholder and who at the last shareholders meeting claimed to be unaware of all those movements that have been made recently.
The sports section
At the same time that Sevilla’s shareholding future is moving behind the scenes, the Sevilla team is carefully preparing the first event of the year. The duel against Levante is considered essential by the coaching staffwho wants to finish the first round with a score that allows them to move away from the relegation zone and even look optimistically to the future. For the match, Almeyda has the great reinforcement of Azpilicueta, his head of the defense, although he also maintains notable absences such as Suazo, injured again, or Vargas, who continues to refine his set-up.
The Argentine coach focuses on his work. Stay away from all the rumors that exist around the team to get those victories that give you a boost. Sevilla has three home games this January that are marked in red on the technicians’ agenda to achieve those points that bring the final objective closer. While waiting for reinforcements, which depend on the economy, Almeyda focuses on the squad currently available to continue getting the performance that he has been obtaining for much of the first part of the year.
The economic difficulty has blocked Cordón for now, who will only be able to move in the market if there is an important sale.
Antonio Cordón also has a task ahead of him. Although the sports director is very aware of the results of the first team, which would have an influence on its performance in the market, Sevilla’s idea is to move in this month of January. Obtaining a capital gain with a sale is considered essential both to adjust the economic issue with the foresight of the leaders to be able to have greater availability when closing any incorporation. This is also where the name of Vargas comes in, a footballer who had girlfriends in the summer – Villarreal negotiated his signing – and who, despite injuries, maintains a presence on the market. The football director is also accelerating with the departures, with Álvaro Fernández already terminated, and the futures of Ramón Martínez or Fede Gattoni in the air.
The incorporation of a forward has already been marked as a priority by the coach, who only has Isaac Romero for this first match of the month of January, waiting for what happens with Nigeria and Akor Adams in the Africa Cup. Cordón has been moving in the market to be attentive to those alternatives that may arise at any time, but always counting on that economic difficulty that the entity has. Until there are exits there can be no more entries, so the market will move slowly in Nervión.
