Diego MartÃnez’s stage at Espanyol had its last chapter with the defeat in Girona and as of this Monday the journey will begin on the blue and white bench of Luis GarcÃa, the club’s commitment to avoid relegation in the eleven remaining days of the League. In the absence of official confirmation, the leaders of the blue and white club, with the essential approval of the owner Chen Yansheng in the last instance from China, decided to dismiss the Galician coach, who had one more year left on his contract, and agreed to the arrival of the former parakeet player between the years 2005 and 2011.
The challenge, already complicated in itself, becomes a feat for a coach who would make his debut in elite football after his debut in 2019 in the Damm youth team and after directing Real Madrid’s third team this season, the International CSR of the Third RFEF. Beyond his tactical capabilities, his best asset will be his knowledge of the club and his declared Spanishness. “The best thing about Barcelona, ​​without a doubt, is being from Espanyol,” Luis GarcÃa said goodbye, through tears, from his six-year period as a parakeet striker.
Luis GarcÃa’s first mission will be to recover a sunken dressing room ahead of its premiere next Saturday in Cornellà against Athletic. By then, Espanyol could face the game in relegation places if Valencia adds this Monday against Rayo Vallecano.
“It costs when you are without confidence, when you are in a low mood. As much optimism as I can express, no one will believe me. The message can be the same every week, but the people and we ourselves want facts and not wordsâ€, explained the blue and white captain, Sergi Darder, after losing in Girona.
The defeat in Montilivi, the team’s fourth in a row, was the last straw for Diego MartÃnez’s project, who was born with great expectations, as the entity slipped at the end of last season, and has died on the brink of relegation with eleven remaining League days. The hopeful speech of the man from Vigo, practically his best weapon in his ten months in Cornellà , has not been translated on the field.
Espanyol started the season with good intentions but impotent due to the lack of troops, a deficiency corrected in a winter market where the parrots were the most expensive club in Spanish football (13 million). Despite the reinforcements, all of them with a low profile, in recent weeks the team has shown its worst face: without a defined plan and incapable of harming its rivals.
Now, the debate on the benefits of the team no longer has a place in an emergency situation where the priority is to add points. Luis GarcÃa, the most economical option for the club and the most sentimental, is the revulsive chosen to straighten out a critical situation.
