With just six days to go before the summer transfer window closes, Espanyol’s sporting management must step up the pace and, despite having minimal financial resources, must hire a ‘9’ so that this Espanyol does not suffer due to relegation.
After two games in the First Division, one maxim has become very clear: without goals there is no paradise and this team does not have one. Zero goals and two goals. The arrival of a striker is urgently needed to take over from Martin Braithwaite or at least come close to him. Puado and especially Veliz had chances to score against Real Sociedad. But they failed and the Basque team ended up winning a match whose fairest result would have been a draw.
Manolo González already said it in the preview, “We want to have people who are close to the striker and in the box. If we can afford a playmaker, fine, if not, a winger. We will bring in the best we can have.” And that potential ‘9’ who will help raise the level of the forward roster could be the Moroccan international forward from Napoli, Walid Cheddira, who has a lot of numbers to come on loan to Espanyol. Gunpowder, what the Catalan team needs most today.
Joan García was the undisputed star of the show in the moments before the start of the Espanyol-Real Sociedad game on Saturday. The international goalkeeper from Espanyol received a tribute from the RCDE Stadium fans for the gold he won at the Paris Olympic Games. The youth player offered the medal to his fans, who have Joan as the ‘apple of their eyes’ and pray that he doesn’t leave in this final stretch of the summer transfer market. He crosses his fingers that in the 6 days remaining a ‘big’ club doesn’t come and put the 30 million of his release clause on the table.
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