descent

CD Numancia and numantinismo live this Sunday a day of reflection after the traumatic relegation to the Second Federation consummated on Saturday. Reflection on a club that presents an uncertain future both economically and in sports. The arrival of possible new investors, the sports management, the coaching staff and the composition of the squad for the 2023-2024 financial year are some of the questions that should see the light in the near future.

The loss of category conditions the economy of a club like Numancia that in recent seasons it has already had notable losses. At the last General Shareholders’ Meeting held in December last year, a budget for the 2022-23 campaign of income (1,975,500 euros) and expenses (4,399,048) was approved with some initial losses of more than two million.

The lack of income from television rights -150,000 euros were budgeted for the campaign that has just ended- have weighed down the Numantin entity, when only the item of expenses in wages and salaries of the first team has reached 2,237,000 euros. Television income in the Second Federation will be less than in the First Federation and that is why potential will continue to be lost.

Numancia closed the 2021-2022 financial year with a negative result of 1,263,866.86 euross. Figures that will accumulate to those of previous years. Negative balances followed that have nothing to do with the 2.5 million profits from the 2018-2019 campaign. With the exception of the 2011-2012 financial year, in which there were losses of 141,108 euros, Numancia had historically been presenting year-over-year surplus to reaffirm your management model. The positive trend was broken in the 2019-2020 season, when the club announced a negative balance of 837,000 euros. The deficit for the 2020-2021 academic year was 700,000 euros.

In sports matters, important changes are coming from the field of sports management to the composition of the squad. Of the current soccer team only half a dozen have a contract for the 2023-2024 academic year, although his continuity in Numancia would not be clear. The players with commitment for the next campaign are Jaume Pol. Bonaldo, Rubén Mesa, Mahicas, Jordi Tur and Javier Vicario. The rest of the contract ends on June 30 and according to his performance his future is in other latitudes.

In this way, the sports management will once again have a great job ahead of them over the next few months to shape a squad that will once again have many new faces. The profile of players who will bet on the market will have nothing to do with those who bet last summer and what is clear is that the item of salary expenses will be considerably reduced. About twenty signings for a new project that will have to be explained in the next dates.

sports management

Who will be the sports director entrusted with the complex mission of building the new Numancia? Rubén Andrés was successful in his first season in charge of the technical secretariat and has failed in his second season.to what makes its continuity more than discussed. Three coaches have paraded through Los Pajaritos since the ball started rolling in August and the team’s performance has gone from better to worse.

Rubén Andrés did not get it right in the winter transfer market and, as the president recognized Santiago Morales At the end of the match against Cornellá, the club suffered from a lack of foresight. «We are confident in the winter market since we should have strengthened the team more. We made a mistake and we have to face it.” The president also recognized that throughout the course “we were optimistic when we thought that we could go up to professional football. We sin by looking more up than down».

The reinforcements of January They were Fabricio (he hasn’t even made his debut), Zarzana and Íñigo Muñoz. The latter is the only one that has had a leading role in the lineups, so the management in this transfer window has been resoundingly suspenseful. Actively and passively, it was said that they trusted the players who were injured as Tamayo and Amorrortu and the reality is that none of them has reached this final stage of the season one hundred percent to help the team.

The management of the sports management has not been good and, perhaps, the biggest mistake was doing without diego martinez, the coach who had promoted Numancia and who left in November with just ten league games played. An error that became gigantic with the hiring of Iñaki Bea, a technician who went from more to less in his performance and who ended up dismissed at the beginning of May. The bet on Pablo Ayuso did not go well and the youth squad’s balance sheet is there: three defeats and a draw, although the man from Soriano is the least of the culprits. Decisions that in principle are the responsibility of ruben andres and that it seems complicated that they allow him to continue in the club.

If so, a new sports director would have to be signed to print his stamp on the new Numancia who will fight in the Second Federation with the aim of re-ascending. A distant ascent on the horizon and a path to achieve with many doubts.