Sporting, at two speeds: from Karrikaburu’s three options to the offers of French football

2023-08-29 04:00:22

Sporting is on track to rush until the last day of the market to try to take advantage of the movements in the First Division until midnight on Friday, the deadline for the registration of soccer players. The search for a striker has as a priority the profile of a player who knows Spanish football and that is where the Gijón team endures to try to convince footballers whose continuity in their respective teams is up in the air. With half of the Second Division waiting for profiles such as Karrikaburu, Borja Garcés or Sylla, among others, the sports management has several routes open abroad as an alternative.

The arrival of Samuel Omoridión at Alavés was intended to be the shot that many expected in the Second Division to fish among the side effects. Each movement of a striker in the First Division, in this case with the arrival of the attacker on loan from Atlético de Madrid to the Vitoria team, has its echo in the Second Division, where he could end up with one of Alavés’ own discards. This is the case of Sylla, for whom the exit door has been opened and for which several teams in the silver category have asked.

He is also waiting for Alavés Karrikaburu, Sporting’s goal this summer, whose arrival in Gijón seems more than complicated. The Real Sociedad striker wants to continue in the top flight and, if he returns to the Second Division, he has Leganés and Racing Santander among his priorities, in that order. Nor is the future of Borja Garcés at Atlético clear, for whom Espanyol has shown interest in recent weeks and another of the names that they will wait to try to earn a place in First Division. He has a lot of billing in the Second Division, where he has already played in the ranks of Fuenlabrada, Leganés and Tenerife. The one who has already chosen a destination is Arana, who will join Racing Santander on loan from Eibar, Sporting’s competitor on those last opportunities to try to improve the attack.

On an international level, one of the strikers offered to several Second Division clubs in need of reinforcing their attack is the Austrian Adrián Grbic, to whom Lorient is looking for a loan so that he has minutes. The arrival of reinforcements eclipses a week in which the rojiblancos will seek to clear up doubts on Saturday and repeat their victory at El Molinón (4:15 p.m.), in this case, against Burgos.