Nico Rodríguez, dismissed as sports director of Granada

2023-10-26 17:03:31

Upon arrival on June 2, 2022, Nicolas Rodríguez Sánchez His time as sports director of Granada CF ends. A stage marked by good planning after the relegation 2 seasons ago, given that, after it, the club would return to the elite with the 2nd champion title under his arm.

Despite this, the fans became very dissatisfied with the now former sports director of the Nasrid club, even calling him the sports director of the heads and tails, implying his good planning of the last campaign and the terrible one in the current one.

Some of the reasons for his dismissal have been widely spread due to the poor league start of those from Paco Lopez, since the most knowledgeable point towards him as the one who has decided to reinforce the defense for the most part – a position where it is suffering the most this campaign -, with players without a level for the demands of the club, since the hallmark of the last campaigns of the team was that of a rocky rival who would always take blood, sweat and tears to score a goal. Only one of the three names that have arrived to reinforce the Granada defense has been the face of the coin, since this one has known how to adapt to the needs of the team. Paco Lopez. That player has been Alvaro Carrerasa young full-back on loan from Manchester United who initially had a hard time entering Paco’s first eleven, although, after several opportunities, he has managed to become an important player in the Nasrid team.

As a cross of the same, there are the cases of the other two reinforcements, Jesus Vallejo y Wilson Manafá. Both are players discarded by big clubs (Real Madrid y Port) so they could seem like a market opportunity, although they are finally agreeing with their clubs as to why they did not want them on the team.

In the case of Jesus Vallejohis arrival is on loan, something that already happened 3 seasons ago, becoming part of the well-known EuroGranada. His journey was marked by more shadows than lights, so for many his return to the city of Granada was never understood. In addition to the doubts of his last stage, in the current one it is almost not possible to count on his services, since, due to several injuries. Recently he has only been able to play a few minutes in the draw against the FC Barcelonabeing one of those named in the goal of the culé tie.

The situation of Wilson Manafá It is even worse, since he came to the team injured and so far has not been able to play a single minute.

It should also be noted that one of the reasons for this poor management has been the mandatory purchase option that existed with Shon Weissman in the event of promotion to the First Division of Spanish football, a fact that finally ended up happening and would end up causing one of the players that the coach practically does not count on to end up being the highest paid on the squad, which forces the club to buckle up. the belt with the salary limit.

After what has already been mentioned and despite his poor planning of the current squad, Nico Rodriguez He will always be remembered as the sports director of the Second Division League title, and also the one who managed to sign a great striker like Lucas Boyéin addition to also convincing Bryan Zaragoza to increase his clause from 2 million euros to the current 14.

Finally, whoever is going to be his replacement has the task of strengthening the squad well in the winter market, since if not, the goal of salvation will be an impossible mission.