In his first two weeks in office, “MAR” has captured his ideas through a versatile drawing (5-4-1 in defense, or a 3-4-3 with the ball) with a convinced football proposal around the possession and on which he hopes to build an author’s team in the coming months. And, of course, closing the gap with the play-off, the objective recognized by the Group and verbalized again on Wednesday at the close of the transfer market for david guerraCEO.
The Canarian coach has been making important decisions in these first three games: he has given hierarchy to Diego Sánchez and Queipo, or the alternative to Campuzano for Djuka. Although the numbers are being more positive than negative (four points out of six in the League), the draw against an injured Málaga at El Molinón raised doubts about the Copa del Rey debut against Valencia.
Tomorrow, against a bone like Leganés, he studies adding new nuances. Ramírez has rehearsed in Mareo with the return of Juan Otero; and he weighs bringing in Nacho Martín to the detriment of Gio Zarfino to achieve a victory that gives a truce to these weeks of instability, “noise”, and changes. Also because the calendar is tight. February is presented as a key month to mark the real ambitions of the project. Today the goal is nine fucking points. The descent, meanwhile, stands at six. And after visiting the sixth best venue in the category (Leganés in Butarque), the rojiblancos face a series of matches against rivals who are also in that temperate zone of the table and who are also looking to find out what their ambitions are and avoid trouble at the end of the season: Huesca (fourteenth).
Tenerife (thirteenth), and Andorra (eleventh). Although they will not be definitive, the results achieved by the young Canarian trainer in this delicate stretch of the championship will give a perspective of how the first sports project of Orlegi Sports in Mareo is. Mathematics also force a tremendous comeback, even higher than that achieved by Rubén Baraja in the 2017-2018 campaign, when he took the team five points from the play-off. “MAR” has 51 points (17 games) ahead to try to hunt down the top positions, and provide sporting stability to an institution that is experiencing a year of many changes.
The process”. Although the initial idea of Orlegi Sports was to complete his first season at Sporting with Abelardo on the bench, the distance with the property – even more than the results crisis itself – made coexistence between the owner and the coach impossible, causing them to become advance the arrival of Miguel Ángel Ramírez, who was expected in June if the Pitu project did not reach the playoffs. With some very important financial limitations due to the restrictions of LaLiga and the economic deficit that has dragged on in recent years, motivated by the coronavirus crisis and the poor sports classification of the last season, the new owners allocated almost all of their financial arsenal for the squad. in the summer market; In fact, some player profiles were signed for Abelardo’s football, very different from the one that Miguel Ángel Ramírez now intends to deploy, who has hastily plunged into a process of evaluating a squad that he did not make. This situation has meant that the context of the early landing of “MAR” in Mareo has not been the desired one for Orlegi, nor for the Canarian coach, who rejected offers before Christmas after being polled by Sporting.
Although it has been present in the last two weeks of the market -the most active-, the circumstances in which the rojiblanco club arrived at this very complex winter window, with the salary cap exceeded, prevented a powerful performance, beyond very specific nuances due to the departures of Diego Mariño and José Gragera. Guillermo De Amores comes to replace the Galician goalkeeper. While Ignacio Jeraldino was signed before hiring him. The signing on the horn of José Marsá, a central defender after the departure of a theoretical midfielder (Gragera), responds more to the philosophy that the new coach and the new game system intend to develop. Ramírez has a contract until 2024, in a clear bet of the property. Orlegi has avoided at all times talking about a transition season, trusting the level of the squad and reiterating that the goal is the “play-off”. But the group’s experience also reflects cases where short-term “failures” were put up with what Orlegi’s executives understood to be part of the so-called “process.” The clearest example was with Diego Cocca, in Atlas. He came to the bench in August 2020, replacing Rafael Puente. In his first campaign he finished in the penultimate position. Orlegi put up with it. Later he managed to lead Atlas to be champion of the MX league after seventy years without achieving it.