Goodbye tests. After a summer monopolized by a market in constant evolution (sometimes turmoil) Coudet will meet today with his players in Mos to start preparing in a more specific way the league start that will star next Saturday in Balaídos (5:00 p.m.) against Diego Martínez’s Espanyol. He will do so after the roster setup has taken a significant leap forward in recent days with the arrivals of goalkeeper Agustín Marchesín, central defender Oscar Mingueza, striker Gonçalo Paciencia, Carles Pérez – yesterday Roma already dispensed with him in the presentation to their fans at the Olympic – and the good prospects that there are in relation to some of the issues that the club still has to resolve to give a final push to the configuration of the squad. Things have improved remarkably, although there is still work to be done. Eduardo Coudet, restless for much of the preseason, breathes much more calmly although the Argentine coach has not opened his mouth publicly this summer beyond the formal press conference in Mexico turned into a monograph on Orbelín Pineda. The club has taken care that the coach did not have to answer questions about the configuration of the squad and it will be on Friday when he finally addresses many of the issues that have been the protagonists of the Vigo summer.
But from here to the initial whistle against Espanyol there can still be important developments in Celta today. The main one has to do with Santi Mina. After weeks in which the Vigo striker’s departure remained stalled after failing the option of leaving on loan to Aris de Thessaloniki, the situation finally seems closer to a solution. In the last days the Al-Shabab, the team that Celta faced last Saturday at the Memorial Quinocho, has held negotiations with the team from Vigo to take the striker. Santi Mina, who had intended to wait until the fall because he and his team of lawyers understand that by then he could receive a favorable sentence for the appeal filed with the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia after his conviction for sexual abuse, he began to meet with other eyes the possibility of going out to the Saudi team. The solution (which goes through a transfer in which Al-Shabab would assume the entirety of the player’s file) could arrive at the beginning of the week and that would solve one of the most complicated problems that the club had on its hands and above all It would allow an increase in resources to reinforce the team in the three weeks of August that are missing before the market closes.
more attack
Regardless of what could happen with Santi Mina, Celta is going to reinforce itself for the remainder of the summer with more attacking players. The fact is that depending on whether he releases the salary of the forward from Vigo and Denis Suárez, the resources increase and the level of the reinforcements that they could reach would change in an obvious way. That is why Celta still does not want to take definitive steps. First they want to make sure of the amount of money with which they will be able to go out on the market to make their last moves and to know the kind of footballer they could aspire to. Solving the Santi Mina case would be great news for the sports planning that Luis Campos is carrying out. Then it would be pending to know what will happen with Denis Suárez and if there is still the possibility of finding an arrangement that could be interesting for both parties because it is evident that the arrangement was never a possibility. The departure of Denis, as the club has already stated, would open the door to the incorporation of a footballer like the Swedish Jesper Karlsson – that the conditions of his arrival at Celta would have already been agreed upon – or of someone else who manages the sports management and that has not transpired. The club thinks in these three weeks above all in completing the forward (the list of candidates for that “nine” is extensive) but also in reinforcing the midfield area. More steps are going to be taken, but they want to tread on sure.
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