“The people of the house have to be the angular piece of Espanyol”

The Spanish closed the market with seven signings and ten casualties, two of them very sensitive, those of Mario
Beautiful Y Borja
Churches. All this in the face of a very important season, in which Espanyol will again play the Europe
League twelve years later. The club ended with a surplus of 21 million euros and this Friday the director of professional football, Rufete, took stock of the market in blue and white key.

He valued especially the reinforcements (Bernardo Espinosa, Ander Iturraspe, Matías Vargas, Andrew
Tight, Fernando
Calero, Sébastien
Corchia Y Jonathan
Calleri), who have arrived to meet the “first objective” that was to enter the Europa League group stage and then leave a “versatile squad to face any rival”.

We have made a sports management model ”

Rufete


For Rufete, although it was mixed preseason with European competition and with the start of League, the timings have been fulfilled. And now they have "a long way" to go. That path will have as a center of gravity "grassroots football", surrounded by young players who can "contribute and grow in the club" and "experienced" players who provide "peace of mind." All this with the "people of the house" as "angular piece of the project."

Rufete arrived last summer and had little time to make the movements he would have wanted, so this summer market has also served to “make a sports management model” that “at any time during the year we can be agile in the market and have very well ordered the fairplay financial". Because "the opportunities are never in the market, the opportunities are before the market and we want to try to be competitive there, during the year, with the clubs of our size."

We have achieved a different starting point than last year and we have to consolidate it ”

Rufete


The director of professional football does not set an exact goal, but faces the season with “much enthusiasm to keep moving forward and keep growing” and aware that “a different starting point has been achieved than last year and we have to consolidate it” , although it will not be easy and for this “we have to be together with the fans because we are stronger”.