Football – First Division
Míchel adds offensive powder, but does not bind his great desire and loses feeling
GironaBusy day at the Girona offices, although with more tranquility than they would have liked. Because the club’s intention and Míchel’s priority was to strengthen the defensive axis with the signing of Eric Garcia, who is finally staying at Barça due to the plague of injuries that the club has suffered recently. Of course, the Girona players accumulate offensive power with the arrival of Arnaut Danjuma, on loan from Villarreal. Montilivi says goodbye to two footballers from the youth academy: Valery Fernández, heading to Mallorca, and Iker Almena, to Saudi Arabia.
On Thursday it was already intuited that Eric Garcia, for whom Girona bet in ownership, with a proposal that climbed to 15 million between fixed and variable, would not repeat the experience with Míchel, who wanted him as it was. The Martorell central also wanted to return to Montilivi, but the barrage of injuries at Barça (Christensen, Araujo and Bernal) and the impossibility of signing have caused the Blaugrana to flatly refuse to lose another piece. The white-and-red sports management has tried other options, but has preferred not to move the file in the defensive area.
In attack, the transfer of the fourth Dutchman in the squad, Arnaut Danjuma, from Vila-real, who will play on loan at Girona, has been completed, and is the eleventh signing of a summer in which the club has redone the dressing room from top to bottom . The winger is added to the roster made up of Pau López, Francés, Krejci, Romeu, Van de Beek, Misehouy, Bryan Gil, Asprilla, Abel Ruiz and Miovski. Together they have meant an approximate investment of 44 million fixed euros, variables aside. On the other hand, Girona has entered more than 56.
Departures chapter
The dressing room, however, remains limp with the departures of Valery Fernández, loaned to Mallorca, and Iker Almena, for whom Al Qadisiyah has paid the five million of the termination clause. Fernández was the only Girona footballer owned by the first team, with which Pau López takes the token as local representative.
The trajectory of the climber in Montilivi, where he made his debut in 2018, is marked by the injury to the cruciate ligaments in the summer of 2019. His subsequent intermittentness and the lack of confidence received have caused the separation. The footballer wanted to have some minutes that Míchel could not guarantee him, and the signing of Asprilla was the trigger for a farewell that was a matter of time. Girona has a problem with chips and spares, because if there are setbacks – and there always are – they will have to suffer. And even more with the dispute of three competitions at the same time. Sevilla visit on Sunday (7pm, DAZN) before the international break.
Source: www.ara.cat
