The miracle man who has avoided the economic ruin of the club

On February 18, LaLiga made public the wage margin that the primary and second division groups had. This restrict It’s used to oversee how a lot a membership can spend between switch and wage value in every market or if the house owners inject cash uncontrollably.

With solely 7,812 euros, it’s a utopia that the RCD Espanyol is being the nice animator of the signing market in Spain. As much as 12 incorporations has made a perica entity that already had the majority of the present closed template earlier than beginning the preseason.

Espanyol accounts are sanitized, the membership complies with the Monetary Honest-Play and is inside rule 1: 1 of LaLiga. Apart from Fran Garagarza, it’s unlikely to hold out such a drastic change within the monetary scenario of any sports activities entity with the financial gap that this membership had earlier than its arrival.

Though theirs weren’t the workplaces, however the recreation land, the sports activities director of the Perico group has managed to perform as a fish within the water in some of the sophisticated positions regarding the construction of a membership.

In his profession, Fran has confirmed to be a really certified particular person to face restrict conditions. He is aware of what it’s to have a progress venture underneath the determine of an anomalous sports activities director ‘. Usually after they arrive at a membership they start to work with a funds, nevertheless, he has finished miracles from nothing.

The seven consecutive years that was the SD Eibar in Primera aren’t any coincidence: Fran designed a template within the picture and likeness of what Mendilibar needed; In England he left his seal within the Wolves after reaching permanence in 22-23 with Julen Lopetegui in command; And in Espanyol the coverage of a membership accustomed to Malvender has utterly modified earlier than his arrival.

“There isn’t a cash for signings”

The Spanish has been capable of understand how the financial reconstruction of a historic membership has been carried out that doesn’t cross its finest second in line with the outcomes of the final 5 years.

The operations that had been finished weren’t fruitful. The membership opted very strongly for a collection of gamers for which a big financial quantity – each in signing as within the wage – had been invested and the efficiency precipitated a sale that, in the long term, centered the membership to destroy.

That is the case of gamers equivalent to Raúl de Tomás -found by about 20 kilos, with an irregular yield and bought for 8 million plus 3 in variables; Matías Vargas -it was purchased for 10.5 and bought for under 4; and Adrián Embarba -found by about 10 million and bought by a million.

Fran Garagarza arrived at RCD Espanyol in the summertime of 2023 with the group just lately descended to Second, with Joselu transferred to Actual Madrid for 1.5 million euros, with a internet debt of 57 kilos and with a wage mass of 72,000 euros. On December 4, 2024, Joan Fitó, monetary director, stated “there isn’t any cash for signings” and that’s that in three of Fran’s 5 markets, between summer time and winter, he had no cash to spend money on signings.

Solely a switch window later, Espanyol is the group that has moved essentially the most available in the market in relation to the brand new incorporations and gamers ceded (12).

As well as, the one participant for whom cash has been invested is Roberto Fernández, from whom the membership has 50% of its providers and the financial limitations final.

Nonetheless, he can have the participant in property depositing 12.5 million in a staggered method to Sporting Braga. When it comes to switch, in simply two years, 63 million have been entered from the sports activities director.

The sale of Joan Garcia

Joan García has been the highest work of Fran Garagarza in his stage as Espanyol and never for the sale itself, however for what he hides behind. The venture started with yields and quarry, though the way forward for a number of the latter didn’t undergo the primary group and that of the goalkeeper both.

Given the doable lack of alternatives, within the want of Catalan was to search for a approach out, though the brand new sports activities director stopped him instantly. In reality, the membership additionally had amongst its plans the sale of the footballer.

Sellent finally ends up renewing and works in a strategic plan to consolidate within the first group. As Spanish has been capable of know, final season a number of groups of the Premier referred to as Espanyol to take care of the participant’s providers, though from the membership they referred to their clause.

With the examples set forth above, the Perica entity has been a membership accustomed to Malvender. Nonetheless, that pattern has modified. In reality, if a group desires an necessary participant of the Espanyol squad, he is aware of that he’ll run into a tough root bone: the clause or nothing.

Barça suffered first hand. Given the curiosity in Joan García, the neighboring membership led the Catalans to pay their termination clause: 25 million euros, being an important sale within the historical past of the membership.

A historic outcome

The reason being none aside from Joan García’s previous. Sellent’s was raised within the Espanyol quarry; Whereas Borja Iglesias – bought for 26.6 million – was purchased for 10 million from Zaragoza, thus changing into the costliest signing within the historical past of the membership at the moment.

The choice to take care of a robust place available in the market is given by the fragile financial scenario of the membership in its return to First, which precipitated Fran to expire of wage margin to signal and register gamers.

In reality, final season he was the sports activities director with much less funding in signings (0 euros) within the main leagues and one of the best classification of the newly promoted.

As it happened in 2017 with the Catalan players, Espanyol wants half of the first team’s squad to be formed by Cantean and Catalan players. Requirement proposed by Fran and that is being met today. That was the starting point of the management team after the quarry has been neglected in recent years.

However, a third subsidiary has been created – the sportive vilassar of Mar – so that the youth does not have to face a very abrupt change to go to the subsidiary and from there to climb to the first team.

Today, Espanyol enjoys some stability both in sports and economically, however there is still much to do. The two descents to Second Division have made a dent not only in the club, but also in the city.

Barça has gained adhere People feel identified with the club, that the teams in the nearby provinces identify with Espanyol.

Club values

Garagarza, very proactive in the coaches courses of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), explained this year what is the model that the RCD Espanyol teaches.

The pattern carried out by the club is based on modernization. And it is that the Perica entity has a Big Data department and are pioneers in the League to wear glasses in augmented reality for training, especially for recoveries.

In addition to the use of hyperbaric and hypoxia cameras also for recovery. The club also has an individual improvement department, that is, a player of the first team will train with the subsidiary strikers and the youth strikers. The objective is that the youth or subsidiary striker when they go up to the first team already have some clear automatisms.

We also work with the project ‘The values ​​of the 21’ that encourage equality among all the children of the club’s quarry. All wear boots where there are no colors and do not mark.

No one is above the other and respect for the partner and the rival must always prevail. It is the reflection of what is expected of the youth players who arrive at the first team in the future.

With the arrival of a new property, Velocity Sport Limited -with the businessman Alan Pace At the head, Espanyol faces one of the most important seasons of the last decade, that of consolidation to look at objectives according to its history.

The work from the offices has been impeccable, now the remodeling of the club is now transferred to the play.