Key hours are coming for Espanyol. The entity’s sporting future will depend on one of the most important decisions it is going to make chen yansheng imminently. the club owner has met this week with Francisco Joaquín Pérez Rufetethe head of the sports area, and in the next few days, as SPORT has learned, his future will be known. It will be next week at the latest.
The sports director, whose contract ends this coming June, has been one of the most criticized figures in recent timesespecially by a crowd that since relegation was consummated under his tutelage -even also on the bench in recent days- did not understand his continuity.
Rufete has endured the downpour and has never given up trying to build a winning project for the entity. After the return to Primera, after which a capital increase was approved to be able to face payments and have more room for manoeuvre, the course has been irregular and except for surprise, the category can be maintained. However, the blue and white parish dreams big.
Chen Yansheng, with the dismissal of the one who was the CEO Jose Maria Duran, showed that he wants to bet on the club and to be closer to decision-making, he appointed Mao Ye Wu, his main man of confidence in Barcelona, as CEO. The roadmap that Durán sold him was not to his liking and that happened, in part, for the dismissal of Rufete. With him out, the former soccer player is more inside.
The big decision will be whether to continue the project with Rufete or without him. The feeling is good, as Mao Ye himself recently admitted. “Rufete has been there for four years and has built trust and harmony between the presidency and sports management. They are two people who understand each other”, affirmed about the relationship between Chen and Benejúzar. The step from him to the front of him when he decided to train the team with the descent already almost consummated and the management of him the following months made him win over the maximum president. In fact, some media such as ‘Cope’ assumes that the decision has already been made and that Rufete will continue because the Chinese businessman values his loyalty in recent years.